Earth Science, Cont Drift/Interior, Post Assessment

What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• pangea
• glacier scaring

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

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

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

Scientists today believes that there have been several supercontinents 
like Pangaea and more will eventually form.

• yes
• no
• Maybe. IDK.

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

• Pangea
• Asia
• Pantallasa
• Eurasi

What happens to temperature as you go deeper in the Earth?

• decreases
• increases
• fluctuates
• remains the same

Which of the following did not support continental drift?

• magnetic striping on the ocean floor
• identical fossils on continents
• mountain ranges
• coastlines fit like a puzzle

Which of these layers is ALL solid iron and nickle?

• inner core
• outer core
• lithosphere
• mesosphere

Mesosaurus fossils are found between where?

• India
• Africa and South America
• Antartica
• Australia

Pangaea has not been the only supercontinent on Earth.

• True
• False