Review Questions for Program #3: Making the Pieces Fit
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return this sheet after viewing Program #3. If you
are unsure of an answer, give your best intelligent guess.
1. Who
proposed continental drift?
2. What name
did Wegner give to the supercontinent that included most of the
present-day continents?
3. What
objections did scientists raise to Wegener's ideas?
4. What
information did Wegener lack in having a more complete understanding of
continental drift?
5. What
technology developed out of WWII that helped map the ocean floor?
6. What
mechanism causes plates to move in plate tectonics?
7. What
concept did Harry Hess and Robert Dietz propose in 1960?
8. How did
magnetic signatures help to prove sea floor spreading?
9. Where
would oldest sediments be found relative to a mid-ocean ridges?
10. What
lines evidence did Wegener introduce to indicate that continents were
connected and have migrated?