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Continental Drift, Sea Floor Spreading, Plate Tectonics
Continental Drift, Sea Floor Spreading, Plate Tectonics
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1
Which one of the following is
not
evidence for a one time supercontinent.
Fossils
Glacier Marks
Magnetism
Mountain Ranges
2
What force is cited as the driving force that moves the ocean plates?
Convection Currents
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Ocean Currents
3
Wegener incorrectly thought that continents _____.
Sunk under oceans
Crumbled into oceans
Plowed through oceans
Ate the dinosaurs
4
What type of fossil was found the
most
in the southern part of Pangaea?
Glossopteris Plant
Mesosaurus Reptile
Lystrosaurus Reptile
The remains of Mrs. Clay's youth
5
What piece of evidence was Wegener missing for his theory of continental drift?
Earth's atmosphere evidence
Earth's magnetism evidence
What was making the sea levels rise
What was making the plates move
6
Which scientist proposed that the ocean floor was expanding around mid ocean ridges?
Harry Hess
Alfred Wegener
Eduard Seuss
Albert Einstein
7
What is the name of the supercontinent when all the continents were connected?
Laurasia
Godwana
Pangaea
Panama
8
The oceanic crust is thicker and more dense than the continental crust.
True
False
9
The lithosphere floats on top of _____.
the inner core
the lower mantle
10
What feature is usually found at subduction zones?
Volcanoes
Mountain Ranges
All of these
Earthquakes
11
Harry Hess stated that crust is _____ at ridges and ______ at trenches.
all of the above
burnt; melted
created; destroyed
destroyed; created
12
Alfred Wegener used
sonar
to help him determine if the continents were moving.
True
False
13
Alfred Wegener showed that the sea floor was spreading and moved the continents
False
True
14
The presence of coal in Antarctica means that this continent must have
all of these
changed climate
had tropical weather
moved over time
15
What is it called when oceanic crust goes down into the mantle under the continental crust?
divergent
sublimation
subduction
superposition
16
The lithosphere includes the ______.
Crust and upper mantle
Outer core and lower mantle
Atmosphere and crust
Inner core and outer core