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Earth interior bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Continents cover what share of the earth's surface?Read the answer and worked solution →Who, in 1596, first proposed that the Americas, Europe and Africa were once joined?Read the answer and worked solution →Wegener named the single supercontinent:Read the answer and worked solution →Wegener's mega-ocean, meaning all water, was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Pangaea began to split about how many million years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →Pangaea first broke into Gondwanaland and which northern mass?Read the answer and worked solution →Bullard's 1964 computer fit of the Atlantic margins was tried at which depth line?Read the answer and worked solution →The gold placer deposits of the Ghana coast are believed to come from the:Read the answer and worked solution →Mesosaurus fossils are found only in South Africa and which other country?Read the answer and worked solution →Wegener's polar-fleeing force relates to the:Read the answer and worked solution →Who in the 1930s suggested convection currents operating in the mantle?Read the answer and worked solution →Rocks of the oceanic crust are nowhere older than:Read the answer and worked solution →Hess proposed the sea floor spreading hypothesis in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Plate Tectonics was put forward in 1967 by McKenzie, Parker and independently by:Read the answer and worked solution →Plate tectonics divides the lithosphere into how many major plates?Read the answer and worked solution →The Nazca plate lies between the Pacific plate and:Read the answer and worked solution →The best-known example of a divergent boundary is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The place where one plate sinks under another is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Which ridge has the slowest plate movement, under 2.5 cm a year?Read the answer and worked solution →The Tethys Sea separated India from Asia until about:Read the answer and worked solution →India collided with Asia about how many million years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →The outpouring of Deccan Trap lava began around:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the minor platesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the drift evidenceRead the answer and worked solution →Run the theory datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the boundary wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Wegener or plate tectonicsRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the boundariesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →

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Earth interior bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Where quake energy is released.
    Item
    Focus
  2. Clue
    Surface point above the focus.
    Item
    Epicentre
  3. Clue
    Magnitude scale, 0 to 10.
    Item
    Richter
  4. Clue
    Intensity scale by damage.
    Item
    Mercalli
  5. Clue
    Nickel-iron core.
    Item
    Nife
  6. Clue
    Weak upper mantle.
    Item
    Astheno
  7. Clue
    Collapsed volcanic depression.
    Item
    Caldera
  8. Clue
    Cooled magma chamber.
    Item
    Batholith
  9. Clue
    Where waves are not recorded.
    Item
    Shadow zone
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 3, Interior of the Earth._

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Continents cover what share of the earth's surface?

  1. 29 per cent
  2. 71 per cent
  3. 50 per cent
  4. 39 per cent
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Correct answer: A. 29 per cent

1. The rest lies under oceanic waters. 2. Continents cover 29 per cent. 3. Their positions have shifted over time. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 4, Distribution of Oceans and Continents._

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Who, in 1596, first proposed that the Americas, Europe and Africa were once joined?

  1. Antonio Pellegrini
  2. Abraham Ortelius
  3. Alfred Wegener
  4. Arthur Holmes
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Correct answer: B. Abraham Ortelius

1. He was a Dutch map maker. 2. Ortelius proposed it in 1596. 3. Pellegrini later drew the three continents together. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 4, Distribution of Oceans and Continents._

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