EVIDENCE OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT

Multiple Choice

What is this a picture of?

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

• Pangaea

• Ocean Crust

Fossils

The remains, traces, or imprints of living things found in ancient rocks

Fossils were found on different continents of the same land mammals or freshwater reptiles

Multiple Choice

When we observe the same reptile fossil in two places, we infer ___.

• The reptile flew to a new habitat.

• The habitats used to be near each other.

• Someone buried the fossils in a new place to trick us.

Multiple Choice

This is a picture of glacier scars found in Africa.  What are these evidence for?

• 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
• sea floor spreading

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What do you think about the movement of Earth?

• Earth never moves

• Earth is always moving

• Earth moves sometimes mostly when there are earthquakes

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What three pieces of evidence support the theory of continental drift?

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_________ is the theory that our continents are slowly moving

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A _______ is the remains, traces, or imprints pf living things found in ancient rocks.

Fossils

The remains, traces, or imprints of living things found in ancient rocks

Fossils were found on different continents of the same land mammals or freshwater reptiles