Week 3.5 Quizz Newton & Plates

What was Pangea?

• Land Animal

• One Giant Land Mass on Earth

• A New Island

• Wegener's Pet

Alfred Wegener noticed that the same land animals could be found on land separated by oceans.

• True

• False

Wegener noticed that the shapes of the continents seemed to fit together like puzzle pieces.

• True

• False

Wegener noticed similar rock layers on different continents separated by oceans.

• True

• False

When Wegener found that the fossils of the same types of plants and animals were found on continents separated by oceans in made him thing that

• plants & animals could cross large oceans.

• they were put their by wizards.

• the land was all joined together in the past.

Only the fossils of animals that could swim were found on continents separated by large oceans.

• True

• False

What do we call the moving of large pieces of rock across Earth's surface?

• plate traffic

• plate erosion

• plate tectonics

• plate bumpers

What drives tectonic plate movement? 

• gravity
• coriolis effect
• convection currents
• the earth's magnetic core

According to Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, 

• Earth's surface is made up of seven major landmasses
• the continents DO NOT move
• Earth is slowly cooling and shrinking
• the continents were once joined together in a single landmass

What is Pangaea?

• the name of a German scientist
• the name of the super-continent that existed millions of years ago
• another name for continental drift
• the name of an ancient fossil