Continental Drift

Each year, North America moves a few centimeters farther from ________ and closer to _______.

The _____ in N. Europe and the _____ in eastern N. America are similar in age and structure.

This is an example of a plant fossil clue that helps support the Continental Drift Hypothesis.

Wegener discovered ________ in rocks made where these glaciers were located.

________ covered large areas of South America, Africa, India and Australia.

Alfred Wegener's nationality is ________.

Wegener suggested that the climate of the Southern Hemisphere was much _______ at one time.

Wegener's idea was not accepted until nearly _____________ .

This is a swimming reptile whose fossils were found in southern Africa and South America.

In the Continental Drift Theory, the continents were thought to _____________ .

_____________________ that live on different continents can be unique to that continent alone.

Alfred Wegener proposed that all the continents were once a supercontinent called __________ .

___________ of similar animals have been found on continents separated by oceans.

Rocks identical in _______ have been found in the area where Africa and South America.

________________ , proposed that the continents were once a supercontinent.

Which is not a reason scientist were skeptical of Wegener's hypothesis?

Another fossil clue was an animal fossil, _________ .

This is an example of climate clues that supported Continental Drift.

The most obvious evidence to support the continental drift theory was _______________.

The Glossopteris grew in a _______ environment.