Plate Tectonics Evidence Worksheet. Explain how seafloor spreading provided evidence for continental. Two pieces of evidence for plate tectonics?
Record what happened on your worksheet. Plate Tectonics: Recognize and explain how major geologic events are a result of the movement of Earth's crustal plates. Children get an introduction to plate tectonics in this geology worksheet.
Clean your plates and place them back on top to form a rectangle.
The idea that the Earth's Stripes of magnetic material in the seafloor provide strong evidence for tectonic theory.
Taylor, the earliest proponent of plate tectonics, argued partly on the basis of the coastline matching of eastern South America and western Africa. The original conjectures concerning plate tectonics were based on circumstantial evidence like the shapes of continents being such that they would fit well if pushed together. And there was a time when all this blue rock was together.