Plate Tectonics - A Scientific Revolution

QUIZ # 1 - Answer the following questions:

1. What was the name for the idea proposed by Wegener?

2. What observations made by Wegener caused him to believe that all the continents were together at one point?
3. What is the name that Wegener gave to the supercontinent?
4. Why were Wegener's ideas totally rejected by geoscientists of that time?
5. How did Wegener explain the movement of continents?
6. How were Wegener's ideas revived?
7. What new discoveries led scientists to rethink Wegener's hypothesis?

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