Assignment

Write 4–5 pages (not including the title and reference pages) that respond to the following:

• Describe geographic evidence collected in the last part of the 20th century to support the theory of continental drift.
• Why do scientists today accept the movement of continents but did not accept this theory back in Wegner’s time?
• Describe the process of the scientific method and theory development.
• How does the scientific method help us understand the natural world?
• Describe how plate tectonics provides the mechanism for continental drift.
• How do plate tectonics explain the process of continental drift?
• How do plate tectonics explain natural landforms like the Himalayas and the Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean?