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Pangaea & Continental Drift
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1
Coal fields match up is evidence of continental drift.
False
True
2
How fast are the continents moving?
About 60 mph
About 1-2 inches per year
4 miles every other year
About 1 foot every year
3
Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections called?
Pangaea
Lava
Tectonic Plates
Continental Drift
4
Pangaea started to break up about __________ million years ago.
180
250
100
500
5
Warm climate fossils found in cold climates is evidence of continental drift.
True
False
6
Why were scientists skeptical about the Continental Drift Theory?
The continent couldn't move through the solid rock mantle.
Wegener couldn't explain why the continents could move.
The continents don't fit together correctly.
There was no evidence of the continents moving.
7
Which of these is NOT evidence of continental drift?
Continents fit like puzzle pieces
Freshwater animal fossils separated by oceans
Fern fossil found on most of the continents
Glaciers completely melted
8
Which of the following was not evidence Wegener used to prove the Continental Drift?
Fossils of Plants
Fossils of Animals
Climate
Human Bones
9
This plant was fossil evidence
Glossopterus
Alto Redwood
Cynognathus
Mesosaurus
10
Mountain ranges line up is evidence of continental drift.
False
True
11
Which of the following is NOT evidence for continental drift?
The moon rises higher each night
Fossils of the same organism are found across the ocean
There are glacial scars in warm places such as India.
There is a big crack in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
12
The super continent that broke apart to form Gondwana and Laurasia was called
Wegener
Pangaea
Tethys
Panthalassa
13
The theory of plate tectonics had its origin in the concept of
seafloor spreading
subduction
continental drift
isochronic maps
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A German meteorologist and geophysicist who originated the theory of continental drift
Curie
Einstein
Wegener
Hess
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What is the Continental Drift?
Any trace of an organism that has been preserved in rock
A supercontinent
The idea that continents slowly moved over Earth's surface
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Ocean water changed color is evidence of continental drift.
True
False
