Plate Tectonics

Question 0

What was the name of the super continent

Answer 0

Pangea

Question 1

Name of the person who had theory of continental drift

Answer 1

Wilfred Wagner

Question 2

When did Pangea exist

Answer 2

250 million years ago

Question 3

Earliest piece of evidence for continental drift

Answer 3

Fit Africa and South America

Question 4

What was the better fit

Answer 4

Continental shelf

Question 5

Some factors that can change the location of the crust

Answer 5

Erosion deposition

Question 6

Where would u think continental crust ends

Answer 6

Further out into the ocean

Question 7

Wagoners strongest evidence

Answer 7

Identical fossils on widely spread continents

Question 8

2 locations where animals may have moved Friday krone continent to another

Answer 8

Russia / n. America

Question 9

Is it true that Mesosaurus, lystrosarus, cynognathus evolved due to similar conditions

Answer 9

No, randomness would not allow this.

Question 10

Poorly sorted, sub angular to sub rounded deposit of clay, silt, sand, gravel and boulders, the boulders have obvious striations

Answer 10

Glacial

Question 11

A sandstone which is very well sorted

Answer 11

Desert

Question 12

The shake contains fossil amphibian bones mud cracks and rain prints

Answer 12

Tropical

Question 13

Limestone layers containing fossil corals and fossil shallow water shelfish

Answer 13

Tropical

Question 14

Why are climates different from present day

Answer 14

Moved

Question 15

What was the main objection to wagoners theory

Answer 15

Could not prove how they were moving

Question 16

Divergent boundary

Answer 16

Pulling apart

Question 17

How did we map the marianas trench

Answer 17

Challenger mapped by ropes it being 5 miles long then later sonar mapped it to b a linear line

Question 18

Sonar

Answer 18

Radio freq to mapping fishing military

Question 19

Where are deepest and shallow waters

Answer 19

Deep close to land - shallow at mid ocean ridges

Question 20

Name of ship

Answer 20

Triest

Question 21

What did mapping of earthquakes overlap

Answer 21

Ridges and trenches

Question 22

What showed symmetry across ridge

Answer 22

Magnetic reversal

Question 23

Magnetic reversl

Answer 23

Indicates motion and allows for time and Kate calculations

Question 24

Age of rock

Answer 24

Youngest at ridge … Oldest away

Question 25

How is heat flow shown

Answer 25

Hydrothermal vents and active volcanic activity

Question 26

What are parallel

Answer 26

Volcanic island arcs and volcanic chains on land are parallel to trenches … This cause subduction