Continental Drift

Continental Drift

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Multiple Choice

What is the name of the scientist that formed a hypothesis that the continents were joined together as one landmass?

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Gregor Mendel

• Bill Nye

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the landmass that was created by the continents being joined together?

• Hawaii

• Euroasia

• Pangaea

• Antartica

Multiple Select

What evidence from landforms supports the idea that the continents were once joined and then drifted apart? Choose all that apply

• Continents fit together like a puzzle

• Land bridges formed

• Mountain ranges from different continents line up when the continents are put together

• There is one continent

Multiple Choice

What evidence from fossils supports the idea that the continents were once joined and then drifted apart?

• Fossils from plants and animals are found on

  two different continents

• Animals swam across the ocean to other continents

• Plants only grew on Pangaea

• Fossils were only found on Pangaea

Multiple Select

What evidence from climate supports the idea that the continents were once joined and then drifted apart? Choose all that apply.

• It was colder at the equator during Pangaea

• Remains of plants and animals are found in

  climates which they could not have survived

• Evidence of

  glaciers are found on continents that are in tropical regions of the Earth.

• Climate change caused the Earth's continents to move

Multiple Choice

Why did other scientists reject Wegener’s idea of continental drift?

• They didn't know that there were continents back then

• He didn't know about Pangaea

• He could not provide an explanation for the force that pushes or pulls the continents

• Wegener was a flat earther

Multiple Select

What evidence did Wegener use to support his ideas about continental drift? Choose all that apply

• Landforms

• Fossils

• Plants

• Climate

• Water