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Why would many scientist not accept the hypothesis of continental drift?
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∙ 10y ago
All grand theories are hard to believe at first because they do not necessarily fit into conventional thought of the time. It takes time for new experiments to be thought up of based on the hypothesis and for them to be run. Often times the technology to support these experiments have not been invented yet.
This was harder to prove because it was not easily visible.
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∙ 6y ago
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∙ 10y agoscientist did not accept the hypothesis of continental drift because they could not figure out how continents moved.
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Why was Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift not taken seriously by most geologists?
Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift not taken seriously
Whtat ways do the fossils help support the hypothesis of continental drift?
what ways do fossils hepl support the hypothesis of the continental drift?ANSWER: fossil plants like glossopteris.
The scientist Wegener's time should have accepted his hypothesis?
Yes, because he is the only scientist that discovered the CONTINENTAL DRIFT and studied all about FEATURES,FOSSILS AND EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE when 1900.
Who was the scientist who proposed the idea of continental drift?
Alfred Wegener proposed the idea of continental drift in 1915
Which type of evidence was not used by Alfred wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?
Which type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis human remains
What scientist advance the hypothesis of continental drift in the early 1900s?
Alfred Wegener
What scientist advanced the hypothesis of continental drift in the early 1900s?
Alfred Wegener
German scientist Alfred Wegener is best known for what hypothesis?
continental drift
Why scientists rejected wegener's hypothesis of continental drift?
Scientist rejected Wegners hypothesis of continental drift at first because he did not have enogh evidence to support his theory. He failed to provide a suitable mechanism that could cause the continents to move.
What was wegners hypothesis?
The hypothesis you are looking for is continental drift.
Why was Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift not taken seriously by most geologists?
Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift not taken seriously
Why did most scientist reject Wegener hypothesis of continental drift?
Because he could not explain how the continents moved.
What is a synonym for continental drift hypothesis?
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The hypothesis that continents have moved is called continental?
The hypothesis that continents have moved is called continental drift.
How did Wigner use the island of Spitsbergen to support the theory of continental drift?
First of all it is Wegener, Alfred Lothar Wegener to be percised. He was a german scientist who had the hypothesis for continental drift. His hypothesis got rejected by other scientist because it interferred with their ideas on how mountains form.Wegener used Spitsbergen to support his evidence for continental drift because Spitsbergen is now a snowy reigon and geoigists had found fossils of tropical plants.Tropical plants cannot grow in a snowy reigon.
What theory replaced Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift?
I think that continetal drift replaced his theory
Why was wegener hypothesis of continental drift not widely accept at the time it was proposed?
People thought he was crazy and not very smart but he proved them. He found a way.
