What was Wegener’s continental drift idea?

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
Galileo Galilei
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
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
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
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
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