Plate Tectonics - A Scientific Revolution
| QUIZ # 1 - Answer the following questions: | |
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1. What was the name for the idea proposed by Wegener? |
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| 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? |
Brooklyn College - Geology Department