Why do the Mesosaurus fossils found in Africa and S.A. prove Pangea?

because the mesosaurus could not swim across oceans

What was one reason that Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift was rejected?

He could not explain what was moving the continents.

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Continental Drift

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Review of the idea of continental drift and evidence to support it.

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1
Pangea was made up of
all 7 continents and India
continental plates
4 continents
all the world's oceans
2
Alfred Wegener named the supercontinent...
Lurasia
Eurasia
Gondwana
Pangea
3
What evidence supports continental Drift?
a puzzle-like fit of all the continents
Fossils of animals found on continents separated by oceans.
Similar rock layers have been found on different continents.
all of the above
4
What was the name of the tropical fossils Wegener used for the idea of continental drift?
Glossopteris
Mesosaurus
Megascolesina
Lystrosaurus
5
Which type of evidence wasn't collected by Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?
glacier scrapes
fossils
rocks
sea floor magnetic data
6
The idea proposed by Alfred Wegener to explain the continental shapes and positions is known as
sea floor spreading
plate tectonics
Pangea
continental drift
7
Why do the Mesosaurus fossils found in Africa and S.A. prove Pangea?
because it lived in warm places
because the mesosaurus could not swim across oceans
Because the mesosaurus still lives in S.A. and Africa
8
Which two continents seem to fit together like a puzzle even below the water?
S.A. and Australia
Africa and Antarctica
S.A. and Africa
N.A. and S.A.
9
Who first proposed the idea of continental drift?
Alfred Wegener
Pangea
Harry Hess
Edward Suess
10
What was one reason that Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift was rejected?
No support that some continents had different climates
He could not explain what was moving the continents.
He could not support that the continents were once adjacent
He could not explain where the continents had move
11
What do glacier marks in Africa prove?
Africa is the same as it was in the past
nothing
Africa was once warmer
Africa was once colder
12
The continents will join again one day in the future.
False
True

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