Pangaea

Pangaea means

• Continent

• Super Continent

• All Lands

• All the Earth

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Who was Alfred Wegener?

• A German Meteorologist

• Discovered the Plate Tectonics Theory

• Discovered Continental Drift Theory

• Named the one big continent Panagea

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There are ______ continents

• 6

• 7

• 8

• 5

Plate Tectonic theory is based on Continental Drift Theory.

• True

• False

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how did Pangaea break apart

• dynamite

• cave men

• Minecraft

• continental drift theory

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Why did other scientists did no believe in Wegener’s theory?

• 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

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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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How is it possible for the same plant fossils to be found in Greenland and Africa?

• Global Warming

• Extinction

• Flowering bearing plants

• Plate tectonic movement

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South America and Africa look to fit together like a puzzle

• does not support the theory of Pangaea

• does support the theory of Pangaea

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Fossils can also give evidence for a Pangaea theory

• True

• False

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