Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics Practice

Alfred Wegener thought which 2 continents looked like puzzle pieces that could fit together?

• Antarctica and Asia

• South America and Africa

• South America and Australia

• Africa and Pangaea

What is represented by the picture? 

• Sea-floor spreading
• Pangea
• How the continents are arranged today
• Volcanoes

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What geologic feature was evidence to support the theory that the continents used to be joined?

• Same rocks were found on different continents

• Glacial grooves were found on different continents

• Fossilized evidence of the same organism found on different continents

• Africa and South America look like puzzle pieces that fit together

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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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What evidence of an ancient organism was used to support the theory that the continents used to be joined?

• Same rocks were found on different continents

• Glacial grooves were found on different continents

• Fossilized evidence of the same organism found on different continents

• Africa and South America look like puzzle pieces that fit together

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What was Pangaea?

• It was a supercontinent, made of all of the landmasses on Earth.

• It was 2 separate landmasses, one on the Northern Hemisphere and one on the Southern Hemisphere.

• It was a supercontinent made of 3 landmasses

• It was the name of an ancient organism

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What was Alfred Wegenerś Continental Drift theory?

• The continents used to be joined together to form a supercontinent.

• The continents have since drifted apart to their current location

• Pangaea was formed around 250 million years ago

• All of the above

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Where did Wegener find plant fossils that today would not be able to survive on that type of land?

• North America

• Antarctica

• China

• India

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What are two pieces of evidence used to support the theory of continental drift?

• Fossils and Pangaea

• South America and Rocks

• Rocks and Fossils

• Fossils and Africa

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The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located ____.

• near continents

• at mid-ocean ridges

• far from mid-ocean ridges

• near Asia