Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

Who is the scientist who proposed Continental Drift Theory?

• Albert Einstein
• Alfred Wegener
• Isaac Newton
• John Dalton

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

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

• Pangea
• Asia
• Pantallasa
• Eurasi

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

An enormous single large mass.

• Pannotia
• Pangaea
• Rodinia

Which evidence was not used by Wegener to support his continental drift theory?

• South America & Africa coastlines
• Coal beds in Antarctica & Britain
• Plant & reptile fossils
• Earthquake patterns

Other scientists rejected Wegener's Continental Drift Theory because...

• He did not have evidence
• He couldn't explain how the continents moved
• He wasn't a scientist
• He was a bad communicator

What is Pangaea?

• an icy sheet which covered many continents
• fossil of a fern found on many continents
• a mountain belt connecting many continents
• a super continent that contained all the continents

What is the theory of continental drift?

• the continents move slowly over Earth's surface
• continents moved millions of years ago but are now fixed
• the continents were once fixed, but have just now begun to move
• the continents are fixed in position

The diagram represents the movement of the mantle under the earth's crust. Which process is represented by the diagram?

• rotation
• conduction
• radiation
• convection