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Harry Hess
Harry Hess
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Review game focusing on the contributions of Harry Hess to the development of plate tectonics.
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1
What is the mechanism of continental drift?
underwater volcanoes
the rotation of the Earth
mid-ocean ridges
seafloor spreading
2
What happens at mid-ocean ridges?
The ocean floor is getting wider as new rock forms
Land masses are pushed outward causing continental drift
Two continents are colliding together
Earth's magnetic field is being reversed and affecting rocks
3
Which popular children's television show features the following characters?
Octonauts
Ninjago
Wild Kratts
Pokemon
4
What important geographical feature were we able to discover using sonar?
M.U.R.F.
mid-ocean ridges
magnetic striping
the lost city of atlantis
5
What is the main difference between a hypothesis and a theory?
theory has a mechanism, hypothesis does not
hypothesis provides evidence, theory does not
hypothesis has a mechanism, theory does not
theory provides evidence, hypothesis does not
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What is the name of the man that came up with seafloor spreading?
Harry Potter
Walt Disney
Alfred Wegener
Harry Hess
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Which of the following is SPECIFICALLY evidence of seafloor spreading?
Fossils found on matching coastlines separated by oceans
The geometric fit of the continents
Identical aging of rocks on both sides of mid-ocean ridges
Matching rock patterns in different mountain ranges
