Continental Drift Reading Lesson

Continental Drift Reading Lesson

by Evelyn Ziennker-Lee

Multiple Choice

What did Wegener's call the single landmass from 300 million years ago?

• Pangea

• America

• Gowanda

• Atlantis

Multiple Choice

What was Wegener's theory called?

• volcanism

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• evolution

Multiple Choice

Why did other scientists make fun of Wegener's idea?

• He had no mechanism for how the plates move

• He had no evidence

• He wasn't a real scientist

• They didn't like his accent

Multiple Choice

Why did scientists disagree with tides and centrifugal forces moving the continents?

• Those forces were too weak to move continents

• Those forces were too strong to move the continents

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https://courses.lumenlearning.com/geo/chapter/reading-wegener-and-the-continental-drift-hypothesis/