3.5 Lesson Check - Continental Drift & Seafloor Spreading

What was Wegener’s continental drift idea?

• The continents have moved slowly apart to their current locations.

• The continents have always been located at their current locations.

• The continents are moving slowly together from their current locations.

• None of these

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

• Harry Hess
• Galileo Galilei

• Alfred Wegener
• Sir issac

  Newton

True or False

Similar fossil records across continents provide evidence for continental drift.

• True

• False

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Alfred Wegener named his single supercontinent ____________, which means "all Earth" in ancient Greek.

• Pandora

• Gondwana

• Pangaea

• Laurasia

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This is a picture of glacier scars found in Africa.  What are these evidence for?

• Africa has always been near the equator
• Africa was once in an area of the Earth that had a very cold climate
• The continents have not moved
• sea floor spreading

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What evidence did Wegener use to support his theory?

• Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces

• glacier scars and other climate evidence from temperature

• mountain ranges and rocks line up across continents

• all of the above

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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

Order the pictures of Pangaea from oldest to present day.

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The process of ___________ continually adds new crust to the ocean floor along both sides of the mid-ocean ridge.

• plate tectonics

• seafloor spreading

• continental drift

• convection

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The farther from a mid-ocean ridge a rock sample is taken, the (a)   the rock is.

• older
• younger

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