Centennial High School
Physical Science: Physics
Roll Assignment # __
“How does our universe work?”
Cycle: ___
#
Year
1
1596
2
1855
3
1858
4
1895
5
1906
1920s
6
1912
Day:_____
Date: ______
Timeline of Earth Science
The History of Plate Tectonics
Name
Discovery or
D I
Data
I C
Invention
Abraham
Americas torn away x
----Ortelius
from Europe and
Africa
U.S. Navy
Underwater
x
Discovery of
Lieutenant
Mountains in the
Middle
Matthew
Atlantic
Ground
Maury
Antonio
Produced a map
x
Snidershowing the fit of
Pellegrini
South America and
Africa
Antoine Henri
Discovery of
x
ReBecquerel
Radioactivity
examination
Term from Marie
of the age of
Curie
the Earth
Bernard
Magnetic variation of x
Normal or
Brunhes
rocks
Reversed
Motonari
Rocks belong to two
magnetism
Matuyama
groups
Alfred Lothar
The idea of
x occurrences
Wegener
Continental Drift
of unusual
Pangea “all land”
geologic
Panthallassa “all
structures
oceans”
and of plant
and animal
fossils found
____.4
What was the word and element of the day?
____.5
What is one thing that I learned or accomplished today and the scientist of the day or
what is one question that I would like answered about Physical Science?
Centennial High School
Physical Science: Physics
Roll Assignment # __
“How does our universe work?”
Cycle: ___
7
1920
Day:_____
Date: ______
Arthur Holmes
Plate Junctions
under the oceans
x
8 After
WWI
1925
Mid Atlantic
Ridge
Detailed evidence of
the ocean floor from
sonar
x
9
1927
1937
Alexander Du
Toit
10 1928
Arthur Holmes
Stratigraphic and
x
radioisotopic
evidence
Pangea splits into 2
supercontinents
Convection Currents x
Drive the Plates
11 1947 Maurice Ewing
12 1950s
#
Year
Mid Ocean
Ridge
Name
Atlantis discovers
thin layers of
sediment on the
ocean floor.
50,000 km long
mountain chain
discovered.
Discovery or
Invention
x
on the
matching
coastlines of
South
America &
Africa,
Rougher
surface than
expected
Wegener’s
greatest
supporter
Ocean Basin
is younger
than
expected
x
D I
Data
____.4
What was the word and element of the day?
____.5
What is one thing that I learned or accomplished today and the scientist of the day or
what is one question that I would like answered about Physical Science?
I C
Centennial High School
Physical Science: Physics
Roll Assignment # __
“How does our universe work?”
Cycle: ___
Day:_____
Date: ______
____.4
What was the word and element of the day?
____.5
What is one thing that I learned or accomplished today and the scientist of the day or
what is one question that I would like answered about Physical Science?