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Continental Drift Evidence
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1
The scientist who came up with the Theory of Continental Drift was .......
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Marshall
Alfred Wegener
2
Glaciers found in Australia proved the continents used to be located in different places
False
True
3
Which are evidences that prove continents moved?
matching rocks on continents
Ancient glaciers on warm continents
Similar weather on multiple continents
Matching rivers and lakes on continents
Same fossils on many continents
4
Pangaea broke into Gondwana and Laurasia
True
False
5
What continent is this?
Australia
Africa
Antarctica
S America
6
What continent is this?
Australia
S America
Antarctica
Africa
7
Which continents was gondwana made of?
Antarctica
Africa
India
South America
Australia
North America
8
Evidence of glaciers on which continents prove that they moved?
Africa
South America
Europe
India
Australia
North America
9
What was Pangea
A fossil amphibian
The name of an ice age.
The name for continental drift hypothesis.
The name of an Ancient Supercontinent
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What is continental drift?
The idea that continents slowly moved over Earth’s surface
Any trace of an organism that has been preserved in rock
A super continent
The idea that continents get eroded away over time
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Why do plant fossils help prove the continents once moved?
Plant fossils were found between the continents
Plants cannot swim across oceans but were found on 5 continents
These plants only grow in cold climates, and those continents are not cold
12
The fossil _____ was found on 5 different continents
Triceratops
Glossopteris
Gondwana
Lystrosaurus
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What continent is this?
Antarctica
Australia
Africa
S America
14
Evidence for continental drift includes how similar the coast line is of these two continents:
S. America and Africa
Africa and N. America
N. America and S. America
Australia and Antarctica
15
Why are coal beds evidence antarctica used to be warmer?
Coal is made from plants that only grow in warm places
Coal warms up the crust of antartcia
Coal used to be where the glaciers were
Coal comes from deep in the earth where it is warmer
16
What continent is this?
S America
Antarctica
Africa
Australia
17
Glaciers found in North America proved the continents used to be located in different places
False
True
18
Why wasn't Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift Theory accepted by the science community?
He could not explain how the plates moved
people are closed minded
People felt that there wasn't enough evidence
The evidence did not make any sense
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Pangea was made of 5 continents
False
True
