PHSC 210 Test Questions and Answers
Francis Bacon - Answer-first to postulate that continents, now separate, were once joined
Eduard Seuss - Answer-"Gondwanaland" --> a connection among the southern continents
Antonio Snider-Pellegrini - Answer-proposed all continents were once together; Noah's flood
split/moved the continents to their present locations; *Creationist
Alfred Wegener - Answer-"continental drift"; "pangea"
Wegener's Lines of Evidence - Answer-1. fit of the continents
2. ancient climate
3. living organism biogeography
4. similar fossils
5. similar geology
, Discoveries - Answer-1. mid-ocean ridges
2. deep ocean trenches
Plate boundaries - Answer-1. Divergent
2. Convergent
3. Transform
Divergent Boundaries - Answer-tectonic plates spreading apart, new crust being formed (ex. mid-ocean
ridges, rift valleys)
Convergent Boundaries - Answer-a plate boundary at which plates come together
Transform Boundaries - Answer-a boundary where two plates slide past one another without creating
or destroying lithosphere
hot spot - Answer-areas of volcanism, high heat flow, and crustal uplifting that are a few hundred km
across
Archbishop James Ussher - Answer-"Annals of the World" - history from creation: 70 AD; uses the Bible
and material of the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Persians, and Babylonians
Date of Creation - Answer-4004 BC
Date of the flood - Answer-2348 BC
Date of Call of Abram - Answer-1921 BC
Francis Bacon - Answer-first to postulate that continents, now separate, were once joined
Eduard Seuss - Answer-"Gondwanaland" --> a connection among the southern continents
Antonio Snider-Pellegrini - Answer-proposed all continents were once together; Noah's flood
split/moved the continents to their present locations; *Creationist
Alfred Wegener - Answer-"continental drift"; "pangea"
Wegener's Lines of Evidence - Answer-1. fit of the continents
2. ancient climate
3. living organism biogeography
4. similar fossils
5. similar geology
, Discoveries - Answer-1. mid-ocean ridges
2. deep ocean trenches
Plate boundaries - Answer-1. Divergent
2. Convergent
3. Transform
Divergent Boundaries - Answer-tectonic plates spreading apart, new crust being formed (ex. mid-ocean
ridges, rift valleys)
Convergent Boundaries - Answer-a plate boundary at which plates come together
Transform Boundaries - Answer-a boundary where two plates slide past one another without creating
or destroying lithosphere
hot spot - Answer-areas of volcanism, high heat flow, and crustal uplifting that are a few hundred km
across
Archbishop James Ussher - Answer-"Annals of the World" - history from creation: 70 AD; uses the Bible
and material of the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Persians, and Babylonians
Date of Creation - Answer-4004 BC
Date of the flood - Answer-2348 BC
Date of Call of Abram - Answer-1921 BC
