Outcome E Practice Test

According to Wegener’s hypothesis of Continental Drift:

• Earth’s surface is made up of 7 major land masses.

• the continents do not move.

• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking.

• the continents were once joined together in a single land mass.

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the theory that continents were once joined together in a single land mass.

• Continental Drift

• Pangaea

• Earth

• Drift

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Most geologists rejected Wegener’s idea of Continental Drift because

• they were afraid of a new idea.

• Wegener was interested in what earth was like millions of years ago.

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

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

Wegener could not identify a force that could move the continents why most geologist ______ Wegener’s idea of Continental Drift

• rejected

• supported

• ignored

• credited

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What is Pangaea?

• the name of a German Scientist.

• the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago.

• another name for Continental Drift.

• the name of an ancient fossil.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago.

• Pangea

• America

• Mexico

• World

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Alfred Wegener evidence included

• Landforms

• Fossils

• Climate

• Weather

• Water

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In sea-floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts

• Along the edges of all the continents

• b. Along the mid-ocean ridges

• In ocean trenches

• At the North and South Poles

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Name the Plate Boundary

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

Name the Plate Boundary

• Transform

• Convergent

• Divergent

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