CONTENTENTIAL DRIFT
How would a continent's climate change if it drifted closer to the equator?
It would become warmer.
Long chains of mountains that rise up from the ocean floor
Mid-Ocean Ridges
The process where mid-ocean ridges continually add new material to the ocean floor.
PANGEA
The idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface.
This scientist drew maps showing features of the ocean floor.
The three places of evident for Sea-floor Spreading
What is Ocean-floor Material, Magnetic Strips, and Drilling Samples.
What are the three types of Evidence that supports Alfred Wegener's Theory?
Name all the continents we have today.
North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antartica.
A device that uses sound waves to measure the distance to an object.
What is Sonar
Sea-floor Spreading adds more _______________ to the ocean floor.
Any trace of a living organism that has been preserved in rock.
Fossil
What is Wegener?
In certain places, the floor of the ocean appeared to be stitched together like one kind of sports ball?
Deep underwater canyon
Deep-ocean trenches
As a continent moves toward the poles, it's climate gets _______________.
Colder
What year did Wegener publish his evidence for continental drift?
Unit of measurement for mid-ocean ridges
Subduction
Answers can be:
Glossopteris, Mesosaurus, and Lystosaurus