Evidence Of Plate Movement: Continental Drift Theory

Question 1

German geophycist and meteorologist
Proposed the Continental Drift Theory

Answer 1

Alfred Wegener

Question 2

Pagaea means?

Answer 2

All Earth

Question 3

A hypothesis that the Earth’s continents were one joined together as a huge landmass called Pangaea that has slowly moved or drifted from each other.

Answer 3

Continental Drift Theory

Question 4

Pangaea is divided into two supercontinent what?

Answer 4

Laurasia and Gondwanaland

Question 5

Evidences that support Continental Drift Theory

Answer 5

1. Distribution of fossils in different continents
2. Evidence from rocks and mountains
3. Ancient Climate

Question 6

Why was Weneger continental drift theory rejected?

Answer 6

Because he cannot explain what caused the continents to move

Question 7

Was a British geologist. He suggested that thermal convection currents in the mantle were the force moving the continents

Answer 7

Arthur Holmes(1929)

Question 8

Was the first ship built specifically for marine biology, geology and oceanographic

Answer 8

Atlantis ship(1931-1966)

Question 9

Is an american seismologist. He was first to propose that subduction zones cause deep focus earthquakes

Answer 9

Hugo benioff(1935)