Continental Drift/Seafloor Spreading

Who was the scientist who hypothesized continental drift?

• Wegener

• Hess

• Darwin

• Einstein

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

All the continents were once joined together in a single landmass and have since drifted apart describes the hypothesis of

• plate tectonics

• seafloor spreading

• continental drift

• mid-ocean ridges

What is the name of the super continent that formed when the continents drifted together?

• Rodinia

• Pangaea

• Gondwana

• Lurasia

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which is NOT a type of evidence Wegener used to support continental drift?

• land evidence

• climate evidence

• ocean evidence

• fossil evidence

What was used as land evidence for continental drift?

**SELECT ALL THAT APPLY**

• Mountains

• fossils

• coal beds

• glacial deposits

Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is a(n)

• stone

• organism

• rock

• fossil

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Fossil evidence is important because it showed organisms (glossopteris, lystrosaurus, mesosaurus) living in many different areas of the world with no explanation as to how they got there.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Tropical plant fossils on an island in the artic and glaciers covering South Africa are examples of _______ evidence

• land

• fossil

• climate

• ocean

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Because Wegener could not explain how/why the continents were moving, his hypothesis was

• Accepted

• Rejected

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

Wegener developed a new hypothesis that stated the continents __________ to create mountains instead of the cooling and shrinking of Earth.

• collided

• shrank

• spread apart

• expanded

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3