Continental Drift

Continental Drift

Multiple Choice

What type of scientist was Wegener?

• climate scientist or meteorologist

• biologist

• paleontologist

• archaeologist

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Multiple Choice

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

Multiple Choice

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

• Africa and North America
• South America and Europe
• South America and Africa
•  Antartica and Africa

Multiple Choice

What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• pangaea

• glacier scaring

Multiple Choice

How does fossil evidence support Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift?

• Similar fossils are found along continental margins that appear to join together.
• Fossils are found in areas where the present-day climate could not have supported the organisms that made the fossils.
• Similar fossils of giant, land-dwelling dinosaurs are found on continents separated by oceans.
• all of the above

Multiple Choice

Why was Wegener's theory not accepted?

• He had no proof of how they were moving
• He had no evidence
• He was married
• He was not a Scientist

Multiple Choice

The Theory of Continental Drift states that Pangaea broke apart and the continents "drifted" away from each other

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

Scientists think that the continents once formed a giant landmass that broke apart, and then slowly drifted apart. What is the name given to this hypothesis?

• sea-floor Spreading

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• Pangaea

Multiple Choice

____ is a fossil fern that helped support Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift.

• Gondwanaland
• Kannemeyerid
• Mesosaurus
• Glossopteris

Multiple Choice

Which of the following fossils was animal evidence for continental drift?

• Glossoperteris
• Listrosaurus
• Mesosaurus
• Cygnognathus