Chapter 3 Earth Structure

Question 1

What are the 3 Structures of the Earth? Technical terms are good too

Answer 1

Crust - Lithosphere
Mantle
Core

Question 2

Who actually proved that Continental Drift exists? What date?

Answer 2

Alfred Lothar Wegener 1880 - 1930
During December 1910

Question 3

What are some evidences of Continental Drift?

Answer 3

Biology, Geology, Climatology, Sea-floor Spreading

Question 4

What is the first evidence of Continental Drift? Who found it?

Answer 4

There was a jigsaw fit of outlines on all continental margins

Frances Bacon (1620): While reviewing maps of coastline of Africa and South America, he thought the outlines shows that they could fit together.

Question 5

Who was the first to SUGGEST that the continents fit together? What did he suggest?

Answer 5

Frances Placet (1668): continents had been torn apart by the biblical flood.

Question 6

What was Wegener’s 1915 evidence of the Continental Drift?

Answer 6

Answer: The presence of fossils only over small areas of now separate continents (how did they get from continent to continent?)

Context: He talked about how the fossils of ancient times existed in different continents, same structure and geological landscape.