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Alfred Wegener
Alfred Wegener
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1
Which piece of evidence is this picture showing to support plate movement over time.
Climate change and tropical vegetation in Antarctica
Matching mountain ranges
Matching rock types
Common fossils on different continents
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What piece of evidence is this picture showing to support plate movement over time?
volcanic activity at plate boundaries
dinosaurs have died
Identical geology
Common fossils on different continents
3
What was the missing evidence that turned up much later and revived Wegeners Continental Drift?
Matching rocks and mountain ranges
Plate tectonics
Jigsaw puzzle fit
Currents
4
The theory of Continental Drift suggested that all continents were once joined together and?
Have smashed together to form mountains
have slowly moved apart over time
Have moved together over time
Have stayed together
5
What was the name of the supercontinent from 200 million years ago?
Pangaea
Gondwanaland
Laurasia
Gondwana
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What piece of evidence is this picture showing to support plate movement over time?
Matching colours
Common fossils
Common jigsaw
Matching rock type
7
Scientists know the lithosphere is broken into several plates because?
We can clearly see it
Antarctica has fossils of tropical plants
We can track movement of continents with maps
Volcanic and earthquake activity are at the edge of plates
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Who was the man who discovered evidence for plate tectonics 30 years after Wegener's death?
Harry Potter
Harry Styles
Harry Hess
Alfred Wegener
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What piece of evidence is this picture showing to support plate movement over time?
Matching mountain ranges
Jigsaw puzzle fit of coastlines
Climate change
Common fossils
10
Alfred Wegener theory of Continental Drift was not accepted because?
He did not have any evidence
He did not have a hypothesis
He had no proposal as to how the continents could move
He just made up a theory, hoping it would work
