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EESA06 Lecture 2 Exam Study Guide Solutions North America and Europe can be 'fitted together' : - Ans:-1600 (Francis Bacon) An 'ancestral continent - Ans:-1858 (Snider Pellegrini) 'Earth's Plan' - Ans:-1910 (Frank Taylor) 'Continental Drift' and Pangea - Ans:-1915 (Alfred Wagner) Mantle convec...

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EESA06 Lecture 2 Exam Study Guide Solutions



North America and Europe can be 'fitted together' : - Ans:✔✔-1600 (Francis Bacon)


An 'ancestral continent - Ans:✔✔-1858 (Snider Pellegrini)


'Earth's Plan' - Ans:✔✔-1910 (Frank Taylor)


'Continental Drift' and Pangea - Ans:✔✔-1915 (Alfred Wagner)


Mantle convection currents - Ans:✔✔-1928 (Arthur Holmes)


Mid-ocean ridges and trenches - Ans:✔✔-1957 (Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen)


'Sea floor spreading' - Ans:✔✔-1962 (Harold Hess)


Transform faults and hot spots - Ans:✔✔-1965 (Tuzo Wilson)


Plate tectonics - Ans:✔✔-1968 (Tuzo Wilson)


Supercontinent cycle - Ans:✔✔-1974 (John Dewey)


the first atlas was produced in - Ans:✔✔-1570


Sir Francis Bacon - Ans:✔✔-a naturalist

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'Permanentism' - Ans:✔✔-continents are fixed in position connected by land bridges which sink to create

oceans - could not be mobile


Frank Bursley Taylor 1910: 'Earth's plan' - Ans:✔✔-- Recognized that the mountains seen where because

of the continents moving




-Where continents drift as 'sheets' that are moved by tidal forces


Laurasia - Ans:✔✔-is the lower part of the Pangea


Matching rock types of the same age - Ans:✔✔-from one continent to another to reconstruct Pangea

which made sense of the fossil record on continents that are now far apart


a lot of negative responses to 'Continental Drift' - Ans:✔✔-Seen as a 'German fairy tale', 'poppysock',

'impossible'


The Earth's interior was too considered to be - Ans:✔✔-too stiff to allow continental drift


Arthur Holmes (1928) convection currents driving the drift of continents - Ans:✔✔-Was largely ignored

in north America


convection currents in hot plastic mantle - Ans:✔✔-arise instead of pulling the crust horizontally apart




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