Continental drift and Pangaea

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

• Harry Hess

• Galileo

• Alfred Wegener

• Newton

What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• pangea
• glacier scaring

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

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

Why did no one believe Wegener's thoery?

• He could not explain HOW the continents moved
• He didn't have evidence
• His data was wrong
• He didn't use the right technology to gather data

What is the force that moves the continents? 

• Conduction 
• Convection 
• Radiation 
• Conveyor belts 

What is Pangaea?

• the name of a German scientist
• the name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago
• another name for continental drift
• the name of an ancient fossil

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

Wegener used evidence of glaciers in places now too warm as evidence to support his hypothesis of Continental Drift.

• true

• false

Wegener used the magnetic striping on the seafloor showing polar reversals as evidence to support his hypothesis of Continental Drift.

• true

• false