Con Drift Quiz

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

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

What two specific continents fit together like puzzle pieces?

• Africa and North America

• South America and Europe

• South America and Africa

• Antartica and Africa

What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• pangaea

• glacier scaring

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

• glacial deposits

• fossils

• seafloor magnetic data

• coal

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

• Similar fossils are found along continental boundaries 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 reptiles are found on continents separated by oceans.

• all of the above

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

Why was Wegener's theory not accepted?

• He had no proof of how the continents were moving

• He had no evidence

• He was married

• He was not a Scientist

Scientists think that the continents once formed a giant landmass that broke apart, and then slowly drifted apart. What is the name given to this hypothesis?

• sea-floor Spreading

• plate tectonics

• continental drift

• Pangaea

What do you call the evidence of Wegener's Theory that tells about the remains of an organism that lived long time ago?

• Ashes
• Bones
• Follicles
• Fossils

What are the three types of Evidence that supports Alfred Wegener's Theory?

• Fossils, Fish, and Land

• Sedimentary, Magma, and Climate

• Fossils, Land forms, and Climate

• Climate, Land forms, and Metamorphic rock