Continental Drift Theory Test

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

• Africa and North America
• South America and Europe
• South America and Africa
•  Antartica and Africa

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

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

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What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• Pangea

• glacier scaring

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Which type of information was NOT collected by Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?

• glacial deposits
•  fossils
• seafloor magnetic data
• rocks

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How does fossil evidence support Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift?

• Similar fossils are found along continental margins that appear to join together.
• Fossils are found in areas where the present-day climate could not have supported the organisms that made the fossils.
• Similar fossils of giant, land-dwelling dinosaurs are found on continents separated by oceans.
• all of the above

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The theory of continental drift named a key part of this idea Pangaea. What is Pangaea?

• One of the ancient animals that helped Wegener prove that fossils from different continents originally came from the same location
•  supercontinent that existed in Earth's distant past
• The underwater ocean range in the middle of the ocean
• The hot spot which gave rise to the Hawaiian Islands, among others

True or false. Coal found in colder climates indicate that the land used to be in a warmer climate.

• True
• False

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Wegener observed scratches from glaciers in Africa and India where it is currently too hot for glaciers to form. This is considered...

• Fossil Evidence

• Rock Formation Evidence

• Climate Evidence

• Objective Evidence

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Wegener noticed that the Appalachian Mountains and Caledonian Mountains line up and are made of the same rock types. This was a type of ....

• Fossil Evidence

• Rock Formation Evidence

• Climate Evidence

• Objective Evidence

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The continental drift theory is _____________.

• where the continents moved so fast that they started breaking apart.

• when the continents slowly broke apart to their present location

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