Continental Drift

Continental Drift

Multiple Choice

True of False: The continents have always been where they are today

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The German scientist who first proposed the Theory of Continental Drift 100 years ago?

• Harry Hess

• Penny Pangea

• Alfred Wegener

• Gary Gondwana

Multiple Choice

What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

• Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces 

• glacier scars and evidence from temperature

• mountain ranges and coal deposits line up across continents

• all of the above

Multiple Choice

What are the remains of organism noticed by Wegener that are found the same in two continents?

• Leaves and flowers

• Ice and mountains

• Plants and animals

• Dinosaurs and reptiles

Multiple Choice

What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed million years ago?

• Pangea

• Asia

• Pantallasa

• Eurasi

Multiple Choice

What do you call the evidence of Wegener's Theory that tells about the remains of an organism that lived long time ago?

• Ashes

• Bones

• Follicles

• Fossils

Multiple Choice

Another piece of evidence in the theory of Continental Drift is __________ evidence of a giant fern named Glossopteris.

• geologic

• fit/shape

• glacial

• fossil/climate

Multiple Choice

The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion is the theory of

• subduction

• plate tectonics

• evolution

• seafloor spreading

Multiple Choice

What does the theory of continental drift state?

• The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time

• Continents are stationary and do not move

• The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents

• none of the above