Continental Drift/Pangaea

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

• Harry Hess
• Galileo Galilei

• Alfred Wegener
• Sir issac

  Newton

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

• Africa and North America
• South America and Europe
• South America and Africa
•  Antartica and Africa

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What is this a picture of?

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

• Pangaea

• Ocean Crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

• continental

  puzzle effect

•  fossils
• seafloor magnetic data
• rocks

Which single piece of evidence helps prove sea-floor spreading is happening along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?

• magnetic reversals

• fossils found at bottom of ocean

• same rock type at bottom of ocean

• continents that appear to fit together

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Why was Wegener's theory not accepted?

• He had no proof to offer

• It was thought rock could not move like that

• He was married
• He was not a Scientist

The Theory of Continental Drift states that Pangaea broke apart and the continents "drifted" away from each other

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Most tectonic plates have both oceanic and continental crust. How are they different?

• Oceanic is thinner and less dense than continental.

• Continental is thinner than more dense than oceanic.

• Continental is thicker and less dense than oceanic.

• Oceanic is thicker and more dense than continental.

The continents move very slowly, only a few __________per year.

• meters
• kilometers
• centimeters
• miles

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

The east coast of South America seems to fit into the wet coast of Africa, this evidence for Continental Drift is called...

• fit/shape of continents
• fossil evidence
• geologic evidence
• climate evidence