Continental Drift Quiz

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

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Andrija Mohorovicic

• Beno Gutenberg

What is this a picture of?

• Pangea

• Plate Tectonics

• continentall drift

• glacier scaring

According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift,

• Earth is slowly shrinking

• the continents do not move

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses

• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass

What is Pangaea?

• the name of an ancient fossil

• the name of a supercontinent that existed million of years ago

• another name for continental drift

• the name of a German Scientist

Which type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?

• evidence from fossils

• evidence from human remains

• evidence from climates

• evidence from landforms

Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is called a

• landmass

• landforms

• continent

• fossil

Most geologists rejected Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift because

• Wegener was interested in what Earth was like of years ago.

• Wegener used several different types of evidence to support his hypothesis

• they were afraid of a new idea

• Wegener could not identify a force that could move the continents

The hypothesis of ________ was that all the continents were once joined as a single supercontinent and have since drifted apart.

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

• Seafloor Spreading

• Convection

Wegener used a fern-like fossil called ________ to prove that the continents used to be part of a supercontinent.

• Lystrosaurus

• Mesosaurus

• Cynognathus

• Glossopteris

Evidence that supports the theory of continental drift has been provided by

• fossils

• glacial deposits

• coal fields

• all of these