Pangea

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Tuesday, November 16

Pangea

Multiple Choice

What do the arrows in the Mantle represent?

• Convection currents

• Ocean crust

• Strong winds

• Earthquakes

Multiple Choice

What causes convection currents?

• Heating and cooling of rock in the mantle

• Strong winds in the troposphere

• Meteors hitting Earth

• Earthquakes

Multiple Select

Which of the following are caused by convection currents? (choose all correct answers)

• Divergent boundary

• Convergent boundaries

• Transform boundary

• Lithosphere boundary

Multiple Choice

Who first proposed the idea of Continental Drift?

• Harry Hess

• Albert Einstein

• Alfred Wegener

• Galileo Galilee

Multiple Choice

What did Wegener name the large supercontinent where all the continents were joined together?

• Wegenerland

• Megaland

• NASA

• Pangea

Multiple Choice

What evidence is there for Pangea?

• Fossils and rocks

• Weather patterns

• Ocean movement

• Earthquakes

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT evidence Wegener used to support his theory of Continental drift?

• Fossils

• Glaciers

• Coastlines that fit like puzzle pieces

• Roadways

Multiple Choice

Why do the coastlines of Africa and South America appear to fit together like puzzle pieces?

• Africa and South America used to be joined together, but split apart long ago.

• Erosion has caused the coastlines into take the same shape.

​Lystrosaurus was a slow-moving, plant-eating reptile that lived over 250 million years ago.

Multiple Choice

Fossils of Lystrosaurus have been found in the brown shaded areas. How is this explained by the existence of Pangaea?

• Lystrosaurus swam across the oceans from one continent to another.

• Lystrosaurus drifted on rafts of vegetation from one continent to another.

• Africa, Antarctica, and India used to be joined together into a single landmass.

Multiple Choice

This is a picture of glacial scratches found in Africa. Which of the following statements best explains the presence of these glacial scratches?

• Africa has always been near the equator

• Africa was once in an area of the Earth that had a very cold climate

• The continents have not moved