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Continental Drift Theory
Continental Drift Theory
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1
Who theorized the drift of continental drift?
Ben Franklin
Alfred Wegener
Harry Hess
Albert Einstein
2
Which one of the following is not a piece of evidence supporting continental drift?
Fossils
Continent fit like puzzles
Human remains
Mountains
3
What is the name of the Super Continent?
Eurasia
Laurasia
Gondwanaland
Pangaea
4
mountain ranges in south america and what line up.
Africa
North America
Eurasia
Australia
5
TRUE or FALSE Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift was accepted upon first introduction.
true
false
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What does Pangaea mean?
everything
together
super continent
all lands
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The slow movement of land over the earth's surface called?
Continental Drift
Subduction
Continental Wandering
Sea-floor spreading
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Why did scientists reject the idea of Continental Drift at first?
explained why the earth was cooling and shrinking.
they provide evidence to support that Pangaea is real.
They have traveled the world to view the plats move.
explained why the North & South pole had warm temperature.
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Alfred Wegener was a
geophysicist
meteorologist
astronomer
geologist
