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LMS Ch 10.1 DR
Continental Drift Directed Reading
Question | Answer |
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The German scientist Alfred Wegener proposed a hypothesis now called?? | Continental Drift. |
Wegener hypothesized that the continents formed part of a single land mass, or?? | Supercontinent. |
Wegener speculated that over millions of years these small continents?? | Drifted to their present locations. |
What did Wegener hypothesize about mountain ranges such as the Andes?? | That the crumpling of the crust in places produced them. |
Undersea mountain ranges with steep, narrow valleys in the center are called?? | Mid-Ocean Ridges. |
Compared to sediment found farther from a ridge, sea-floor sediment closer to a ridge is?? | Thinner. |
Compared to rocks farther from a ridge, rocks closer to a ridge are?? | Younger. |
The oldest ocean rocks are?? | More than 200 million years old. |
Continents move over Earth’s surface?? | By the widening sea floor, which acts as a conveyor belt. |
The mechanism that verifies Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift is?? | Sea-Floor Spreading. |
Magma?? | Molten Rock. |
Paleomagnetism?? | The study of the magnetic properties of rocks. |
Rift?? | A crack in Earth’s crust. |
Sea-Floor Spreading?? | The mechanism that causes the continents to move. |