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10/14/2024 11:14 PM
EESA06 Lecture 2 Exam Questions And
Correct Answers
North America and Europe can be 'fitted together' : - answer✔1600 (Francis Bacon)
An 'ancestral continent - answer✔1858 (Snider Pellegrini)
'Earth's Plan' - answer✔1910 (Frank Taylor)
'Continental Drift' and Pangea - answer✔1915 (Alfred Wagner)
Mantle convection currents - answer✔1928 (Arthur Holmes)
Mid-ocean ridges and trenches - answer✔1957 (Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen)
'Sea floor spreading' - answer✔1962 (Harold Hess)
Transform faults and hot spots - answer✔1965 (Tuzo Wilson)
Plate tectonics - answer✔1968 (Tuzo Wilson)
Supercontinent cycle - answer✔1974 (John Dewey)
the first atlas was produced in - answer✔1570
Sir Francis Bacon - answer✔a naturalist
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'Permanentism' - answer✔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' - answer✔- Recognized that the mountains seen where
because of the continents moving
-Where continents drift as 'sheets' that are moved by tidal forces
Laurasia - answer✔is the lower part of the Pangea
Matching rock types of the same age - answer✔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' - answer✔Seen as a 'German fairy tale',
'poppysock', 'impossible'
The Earth's interior was too considered to be - answer✔too stiff to allow continental drift
Arthur Holmes (1928) convection currents driving the drift of continents - answer✔Was largely
ignored in north America
convection currents in hot plastic mantle - answer✔arise instead of pulling the crust horizontally
apart
10/14/2024 11:14 PM
EESA06 Lecture 2 Exam Questions And
Correct Answers
North America and Europe can be 'fitted together' : - answer✔1600 (Francis Bacon)
An 'ancestral continent - answer✔1858 (Snider Pellegrini)
'Earth's Plan' - answer✔1910 (Frank Taylor)
'Continental Drift' and Pangea - answer✔1915 (Alfred Wagner)
Mantle convection currents - answer✔1928 (Arthur Holmes)
Mid-ocean ridges and trenches - answer✔1957 (Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen)
'Sea floor spreading' - answer✔1962 (Harold Hess)
Transform faults and hot spots - answer✔1965 (Tuzo Wilson)
Plate tectonics - answer✔1968 (Tuzo Wilson)
Supercontinent cycle - answer✔1974 (John Dewey)
the first atlas was produced in - answer✔1570
Sir Francis Bacon - answer✔a naturalist
, ©SIRJOEL EXAM SOLUTIONS
10/14/2024 11:14 PM
'Permanentism' - answer✔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' - answer✔- Recognized that the mountains seen where
because of the continents moving
-Where continents drift as 'sheets' that are moved by tidal forces
Laurasia - answer✔is the lower part of the Pangea
Matching rock types of the same age - answer✔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' - answer✔Seen as a 'German fairy tale',
'poppysock', 'impossible'
The Earth's interior was too considered to be - answer✔too stiff to allow continental drift
Arthur Holmes (1928) convection currents driving the drift of continents - answer✔Was largely
ignored in north America
convection currents in hot plastic mantle - answer✔arise instead of pulling the crust horizontally
apart
