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Question 1. What force did Wegener believe was responsible for the movement of continents?
Question 2. What were the greatest objections to Wegener's hypothesis?
Question 3. What do we mean when we say something is dense?
Question 4. How is density expressed (units)?
Question 5. How can seismic waves be used to "see" inside Earth?
Question 6. List the Earth's internal layers by physical characteristics.
Question 7. What is the relationship between crust and litho-sphere? Between lithosphere and asthenosphere?
Question 8. Why is Earth's interior still hot? Shouldn't it have cooled off by now?
Question 9. How can continents be supported high above sea level?
Question 10. How did a careful plot of earthquake locations affect the discussion of the Theory of Continental Drift (as it was first called)? What about the jigsaw puzzle-like fit of continents around the Atlantic?
Question 11. How did an understanding of radioactive decay and radiometric dating influence the debate about continental drift?