Pangaea - Post Lab Quiz

Why was Wegener investigating fossils?

• It was his job before his study of plate motion

• Identical fossil remains on different continents indicated that the land masses had been connected

• He studied oceanography and fossil remains of ocean organisms

• They indicated similar mountain ranges around the world

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Check all of the fossil examples Wegener used as evidence of plate movement

• Lystrosaurus (like a dinosaur)

• Glossopteris (a fern)

• Mesosaurus (an aquatic reptile)

• Sequoia sempervirens (redwood trees)

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As Alfred Wegener examined rock formations and mountain ranges, he hypothesized that the Appalachian mountains were

• young and formed after the plates moved apart

• the mountain ranges had once been glaciers

• part of coal beds and glaciers

• once connected with mountains in northern Europe

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2 billion year old rocks studied in S. America match up with others of the same age in

• Africa

• Antarctica

• Australia

• N. America

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Evidence of ancient glaciers exists in Antarctica, S. Africa and

• Greenland

• India

• N. America

• Japan

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When looking at the continents, which two look like puzzle pieces that fit together?

• Greenland and Australia

• S. America and N. America

• S. America and Africa

• Antarctica and N. America

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