1. What is the concept that adding or removing a weight from the earth's crust causes it to depress or rebound?
Isostasy
Plate tectonics
Rifting
2. What name did Wegener give to his theory of horizontal crustal movements?
Continental drift
Isostasy
Plate tectonics
Rifting
Seafloor spreading
4. What type(s) of evidence did Wegener use to support his theory?
Distributions of fossil plants and animals
Distributions of modern plants and animals
Geographic fit of the continents and features thereon
Paleoclimatic oddities such as glacial till, coral reefs, and coal
All of the above
5. Why was Wegener's theory rejected by geophysicists of the 1920's?
Lack of a mechanism for continents to plough through oceanic crust
The concentration of continents in the northern hemisphere
The presence of a continent directly over the south pole
2007-10-10
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