Continental Drift Theory

Who is the scientist that developed the Continental Drift Theory?

• Anton Wagner

• Alfred Wegener

• Archie Bunker

• Alfonso Ribeiro

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What is the Theory of Continental Drift?

• There is a gravitational force that is acting on Earth's land masses, pulling them apart at a rate of 1-2 cm per year.

• The continents are located exactly where they will remain for the next 250 million years.

• The Earth was once a molten mass that has since cooled and contracted, separating the continents by vast oceans.

• The continents were once together in one large land mass but they have since drifted apart.

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What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed million years ago?

• Pangea

• Panera

• Polymorphism

• Palendrome

What do you call the evidence of Wegener's Theory that tells about the remains of an organism that lived long time ago?

• Bones

• Folicles

• Fossils

• Ashes

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What type of evidence supported Wegener's Theory of Continental Drift?

• Evidence of Climate C

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• Fossils

• Mountain Ranges and landforms

• All of the Above

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One of the pieces of fossil evidence Wegener found was from a fern-like plant called what?

• Gabagool

• Glossopteris

• Gladiolus

• Gargantuan

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What are the two continents that fit together based on Wegener's Theory, and that sparked his curiosity to find further evidence to support it?

• India and Asia

• Russia and North America

• Africa and South America

• Africa and Asia

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What is a theory?

• an indisputable observation of a natural or supernatural phenomenon

• a widely held but false belief or idea rooted in careful observation but faulty scientific method, but which attempts to bring together many facts and hypotheses thought to be true

• something that has no possibility of any other result; something that you know will happen in a particular way

• a carefully thought-out explanation for observations of the natural world that has been constructed using the scientific method, and which brings together many facts and hypotheses.

What are the three types of Evidence that supports Alfred Wegener's Theory? 

• Fossils, Fish, and Land

• Climate, Land forms, and Metamorphosis

• Sedimentary, Magma, and Climate

• Fossils, Land forms, and Climate

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What is the force that moves the continents? 

• Convection Currents in the Mantle

• Radiation in the Mantle

• Convection Currents in the Outer Core

• Conduction in the Mantle

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