CLARENCE EDWARD DUTTON further explained the contracting Earth concept and proposed the term “ISOSTACY” which states that wherever equilibrium exists in the Earth’s surface, equal mass must underlie equal surface areas. (TRUE or FALSE)

Composed of the crust, mantle and core; and distinguished based on composition. (COMPOSITIONAL LAYERS, MECHANICAL LAYERS )

ALFRED WEGENER noticed that the continents are fixed. He proposed the Continental Drift Hypothesis. (TRUE OR FALSE)

Early geologist believed that the continents and the oceans had fixed geographical positions. (TRUE OR FALSE)

Identical fossils of organisms were discovered on different continents suggesting that a land was probably present in the past. (TRUE OR FALSE)

Consist of lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, and inner core. Distinguished based on rock strength and rigidity. (COMPOSITIONAL LAYERS, MECHANICAL LAYERS )

The supercontinent broke apart because of various forces, which formed the separate continents we know today. (TRUE OR FALSE)

The continental Drift Hypothesis was subjected to criticism because the idea failed to explain the driving forces necessary for the “drift “ to occur. (TRUE OR FALSE)

Wegener’s theory and sea floor maps were used to develop the theory of plate tectonics. (TRUE OR FALSE)

The coastlines of continents fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. (TRUE OR FALSE)

States that the Earth”s outermost layer is fragmented on large and small plates that are moving on another while riding atop a hotter and more mobile material known as the _____________.

According to RAISIN THEORY, the earth is likened to a grape that contracted into a raisin due to cooling process that occurred after the Big Bang 13.77 B years ago. (TRUE or FALSE)