3.5 Continental Drift Quiz

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

• Eurasia

• Pangaea

• Laurasia

• Gondwanaland

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

• Pangaea theory

• plate movement theory

• continental drift theory

• landmass theory

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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

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Which source of evidence did Wegener use to support his theory of continental drift?

• fossils

• warm equatorial climates

• satellite mapping

• magnetic fields

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Using the map, determine which land feature supports the theory of continental drift?

• canyons

• oceans

• coal fields

• volcanoes

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

• volcanoes

• continents colliding

• meteorite impacts

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Which piece of fossil evidence supports the idea of continental drift?

• petrified wood

• bacteria

• Lystrosaurus

• Tyrannosaurus

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

• North America

• Antarctica

• South America

• Australia

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a well tested, widely accepted explanation that combines several hypotheses and observations is a

• fossil

• hypotheses

• theory

• continental drift

What evidence of climate change on continents supports the theory of continental drift?

• signs that glaciers existed in South Africa

• similar coal fields on different continents

• change in atmospheric temperature over time

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