Moving continents

Moving continents

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Moving continents

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8 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

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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

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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

Pandora

Gandowandaland

Pangaea

Percia

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 5 pts

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What does the theory of continental drift state?

The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time

Continents are stationary and do not move

The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents

none of the above

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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What is this a picture of?

plate tectonics

Pangaea

Panthalassa

continental drift

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was Pangaea?

It was a supercontinent, made of all of the landmasses on Earth.

It was 2 separate landmasses, one on the Northern Hemisphere and one on the Southern Hemisphere.

It was a supercontinent made of 3 landmasses

It was the name of an ancient organism

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following scientists put forth the Continental Drift Theory?

Wegener

Welsh

Wagoneer

Einstein

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Which two continents are the most notable of Wegeners idea that the coast lines of certain continents match up.

Indian and North America

Australia and North America

Europe and Australia

South America and Africa