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The presence of _____________ on several continents supports the hypothesis of continental drift

• Mammals
• Fossils
• Gold
• Diamonds

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Early map makers and Alfred Wagner noticed that the coast of South America matched up with the coast of Africa.

• True
• False

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One reason that scientists rejected Wagner’s hypothesis was because he couldn’t explain how or why the continents moved

• True
• False

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A lack of explanation for continental drift prevented many scientists from accepting that a single super continent called ______________ ever existed

• Pandora
• Glossopteris
• Pangaea
• Wegner

Matching ________________ on different continents are evidence of continental drift.

• River systems
• Mountain chains
• Weather patterns
• Wind systems

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Wegner believed that the continents were assembled as part of a supercontinent about ______________ years ago

• 50-100 million
• 200-300 millionn
• 500-600 million
• 4.6 billion

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The map above shows areas where there used to be glaciers. What does this map tell us about these areas?

• Glaciers formed in these areas because of a climate shift during an ice age
• At one time the whole world was covered in glaciers and this map shows where they still are today
• These areas still have glaciers because they are the coldest places on Earth
• There used to be glaciers in these areas when they were located closer to the south pole

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The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located

• Near continents
• At mid-ocean ridges
• Far from mid ocean ridges
• Near Asia

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New Ocean crust is continually formed at __________.

• Mid-ocean ridges
• Trenches
• Subduction zones
• Ocean basins

The theory of ________________ explains how new crust is created at mid-ocean ridges.

• Relativity

• Uniformitarianism

• Volcanoes

• Continental drift

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