Continental Drift/Seafloor Spreading

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Who was the scientist who hypothesized continental drift?

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Wegener

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All the continents were once joined together in a single landmass and have since drifted apart describes the hypothesis of

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continental drift

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What is the name of the super continent that formed when the continents drifted together? Options: Rodinia, Pangaea, Gondwana, Lurasia

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Pangaea

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Which is NOT a type of evidence Wegener used to support continental drift? land evidence, climate evidence, ocean evidence, fossil evidence

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ocean evidence

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Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is a(n)

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fossil

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Fossil evidence is important because it showed organisms (glossopteris, lystrosaurus, mesosaurus) living in many different areas of the world with no explanation as to how they got there.

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True

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Tropical plant fossils on an island in the artic and glaciers covering South Africa are examples of _______ evidence.

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climate

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Why was Wegener's hypothesis about continental movement not accepted?

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Because he could not explain how/why the continents were moving, his hypothesis was rejected.

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Wegener developed a new hypothesis that stated the continents __________ to create mountains instead of the cooling and shrinking of Earth.

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collided

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Undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced at a divergent plate boundary is a ____________

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Mid-ocean ridge