GRADE: 7 General – Writing Question 1 and 2

Name: ___________________________ Date: ________________

Continental Shelves

1. Label the part shown in the picture.

a) What do you understand from the coastlines of South america and Africa? it looks like puzzle pices that fit together
Continental drift
b) Name the hypothesis that supports that these continents were one landmass. _________________________
Alfred Wegner
c) Who was the scientist who put forward the hypothesis. _________________________________
Pangea
2. Name the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago. ______________________________________

3. What are the evidences that you would used to explain or support the hypothesis?

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Similar rock types in different continents, scratches made by glaciers when continents drifted,
fossils of plants animals of same types from different continents, Coal deposits from Antartica,
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coaslines of continents fixing with each other like puzzle pieces.
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4. Alfred Wegener developed the continental drift hypothesis through several observations. Which
observation did NOT support the hypothesis of continental drift?
a) The sizes of some present-day continents are the same.
b) The shapes of some present-day continents fit together.
c) The ages and types of rock formations on widely separated continents are similar.
d) Fossils of the same land animals have been found on widely separated continents.
5. What technologies and methods are used to map and study the ocean floor?
Topography maps were made using SONAR or ecosounder, that helped to give the picture of the
landforms inside the ocean. SONAR uses sound waves send to the bottom of the ocean where it hits
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the surface and comes back and the time is calculated.
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What are the two different colors representing the ocean

floor and what are its significance?
Light blue color shows shallow regions, like mountains on
the ocean floor - Mid ocean ridge.
Dark blue color shows deeper regions or troughs under the
oceans - ocean trench

6.
 a. Mark the Mid-ocean ridge in the picture
b. Explain a Mid Ocean ridge:
Underwater mountain formed due to seafloor spreading

c. Who is Marie Tharp?

Marie Tharp was the first person to find out mid ocean ridge
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ocean trench
8. __________________________________ is a deep underwater trough seen on the ocean floor.
Mariana trench
9. __________________________________ is the deepest ocean trench seen on the ocean floor.
Isochrone map
10. ___________________________ (Topographic map / Isochrone Map) gives the age of the ocean floor.
11. Isochrone maps are imaginary line on a map that shows points that have the same age, formed at the
same time, which gives it a pattern (True/False)

12.
a) Where is the youngest rock located?
the red color regions which are the middle part of mid ocean ridge.
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b) What pattern do you see here?
As we move away from the mid ocean ridge, the age of the rocks increses on both sides giving
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a symmytrical pattern.
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c) How does the age of the seafloor change as you move away from mid ocean ridge? What can you
conclude from this evidence?
When the magma comes out from the center of the mid ocean ridge it form new rocks and at the
same time older rocks are pushed to the sides. This is an example of seafloor spreading that
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supports plate tectonics(plate tectonis - how the crust or the lithosphere of the earth moves over
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years)
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