Continental Drift

Question 1

What is the hypothesis of continental drift?

Answer 1

Prove that continents had moved over time.

Question 2

Who is credited for proposing continental drift?

Answer 2

Alfred Wegener

Question 3

What evidence was first collected to support the hypothesis of continental drift?

Answer 3

Matching edges
Matching rocks
Matching Climates
Matching mountains
Matching fossils

Question 4

What was the main weakness of the continental drift hypothesis?

Answer 4

Wegener couldn’t explain HOW continental drift worked.

Question 5

What is the theory of plate tectonics?

Answer 5

Lithosphere is broken into 7-8 large plates which float on the partly molten asthenosphere.
Plates pull apart, slide, and collide at their boundaries, causing tectonics.

Question 6

Who first proposed the theory of plate tectonics?

Answer 6

Harry Hess

Question 7

What was the new mechanism to explain plate tectonics?

Answer 7

Seafloor spreading

Question 8

Volcanic mountains were pushing the continents apart as they erupted.

Answer 8

Seafloor spreading

Question 9

The same continents also shared similar plant and animal fossils from the same age rocks.

Answer 9

Glossopteris Fern