Continental Drift

Who was Alfred Wagner?

• A famous painter

• A renowned musician

• A well-known novelist

• A German scientist that proposed the theory of contential drift

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What is a pangea?

• A type of dinosaur

• A type of plant

• A supercontient containing all of earth's land that existed 225 million years ago

• A type of bird

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What are tectonic plates?

• type of dinnerware

• Pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle that move due to convection currents

• A chip you enter in a robot

• type of body armor

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The hypothetical land mass that existed when all contents were joined.

• ice core

• sea floor spreading

• pangea

• compaction

Hypothesis that the continents once formed a single land mass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations is called?

• Landmass shift

• Mass break away

• Continental Drift

• Wet Pancaking

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The hypothesis that land masses spread apart from each other and have done so in the past is known as

• Divergent Plate Boundary 

• Tension

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental drift

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Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess

• Alfredo Sauce

• Alfred Wegener

• Alfred the Butler

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The idea that the continents move around the Earth's surface is called?

• Pangea

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• sea-floor spreading

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The theory that explains the movement of continents over time

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

• Plate Motion

• Seafloor Spreading

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The hypothesis that Pangaea was a supercontinent that broke apart causing the continents to move into their current locations is known as continental ______.

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