Continental Drift

What is the name of the theory that explains why mountain ranges in Africa and South America line up?

• Pangaea theory

• landmass theory

• continental drift theory

• plate movement theory

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

What name did Wegener give to the single large landmass composed of all continents?

• Eurasia

• Gondwanaland

• Laurasia

• Pangaea

What first caused people to consider that the continents were once one large landmass?

• glacier evidence in warmer countries

• continents looked like they fit together

• studying the valleys of the ocean floor

• similar fossils were found on many continents

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Which piece of evidence suggests that Africa and South America formed Gondwanaland 200 million years ago?

• coal fields

• a shared ocean

• folded mountains

• land formations created by glaciers

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

Which three continents contain coal fields that provide evidence for continental drift?

• Africa, Antarctica, and North America

• Eurasia, Africa, and South America

• Antarctica, South America, and Africa

• South America, North America, and Eurasia

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

In Wegener's view, what caused mountain ranges to form?

• volcanoes

• Earth shrinking

• meteorite impacts

• continents colliding

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

On which continent were fossils of both Glossopteris and Lystrosaurus discovered?

• Australia

• South America

• Antarctica

• North America

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

A plate moving at a rate of 3 cm/year is moving toward a plate that is 1,500 km away. In how many years will the plates collide?

• 50,000,000 years

• 50,000 years

• 5,000 years

• 500 years

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Which two continents contain fossils of Mesosaurus, an extinct reptile, in similar regions of Pangaea?

• Africa and South America

• Eurasia and Africa

• Australia and Eurasia

• North America and Australia

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Which land feature supports the theory of continental drift?

• canyons

• volcanoes

• coal fields

• oceans

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5