Interactions in the Physical Environment Review

Pangea is...

• The name of the original supercontinent

• Another name for Oceania

• What land on earth looks like today

• The name of a tectonic plate

Which one of Wegener's proofs is described?: South America and Africa appear to fit together like a jigsaw puzzle

Which one of Wegener's proofs is described?: The are mountains and rock formations of similar age and structure on separated continents (North America and Europe).

Which one of Wegener's proofs is described?: The same plant and animal fossils can be found on separate continents (South America and Africa)

Which one of Wegener's proofs is described?: Ice sheets once covered parts of Africa, Australia, South America, and India even though these places are located too close to the equator.

What was Alfred Wegeners Theory?

• Convection Currents

• Pangea

• Continental Drift

• Plate Tectonics

How many major tectonic plates are there?

_____________________ is the main force that drives the movement of tectonic plates.

• Gravity

• Continent Drifting

• Subduction

• Convection Currents

Explain convection currents.

The inner core...

• Is made of metals such as nickel/iron.

• Is extremely hot

• Is solid.

• All of these are true