Alfred Wegener
What was Alfred Wegener is known for?
What is Continental Drift Theory.
Where is the Oceanic Crust?
What is the ocean?
Who created Continental Drift Theory?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
What is Pangea
What is a theory about how Alfred Wegener thought of the continents were all together
In what year did Wegener write his book on his Theory of Continental Drift?
When is 1914?
What was Alfred Wegener’s job and main career interest, before developing the Continental Drift Theory?
What is a meteorologist.
What are Tectonic Plates
What are the pieces that the lithosphere is broken into?
What did the continents look like according to Alfred Wegener? (Hint: Look at South America and Africa)
What are pieces of a puzzle?
What type of continent is Pangea?
What is a supercontinent.
Approximately, when did Pangea begin to break apart? (Hint: it is above 50 million years ago.)
When is 175 million - 200 million years ago? (Any answer between this number is accepted.)
What was question Wegener couldn’t answer, and was ultimately the reason why the science community could not accept his theory?
What is how the continents moved across the ocean?
How many well known tectonic plates are there?
What are seven?
What 2 continents fit extremely well with each other, and are most noticeable?
What is South America and Africa?
What is the latin word for Pangea.
What is (all lands).
What was the name of Wegener’ book describing his Theory on Continental Drift?
What is Origins of Continents and Oceans?
What was Alfred Wegener referred to ahead of his time?
Who is the Father of Continental Drift?
What was the final piece of evidence, which Wegener was unable to acquire, to answer the how the continents moved across the ocean?
What is plate tectonics?
What was the theory about all the continents being connected together?
What is the Pangea Theory?
How did Pangea break apart?
What are the movements of the tectonic plates caused by the mantle.
What four pieces of evidence supported Wegener’s theory on Continental Drift?
What are: all the continents fitting together like puzzle pieces, matching fossils of both plants and animals across continents, matching mountain belts/ makeups, and ancient climates showing that the continents were in different places from where they are today?
What happened to Alfred Wegener before he could prove his theory?
Who was caught in a blizzard and died?
What year did Continental Drift Theory was dismissed as being unbelievable?
When is 1930?
What was a fossil that was one of Alfred Wegener’s theory about fossils on the same continents
What is Glossopteris
What language is derived from and what does it mean?
What is greek and all lands/ all Earth?
What piece of technology was used for the a continental drift theory?
What is SONAR?