Evidence of Plate Movement

He has credited for the idea on Continental Drift?

• Alfred Lothar Wegener

• Charles Darwin

• Harry Hammond Hess

• Robert Dietz

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What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

• Africa and North America

• South America and Africa

• South America and Europe

• Antarctica and Africa

All continents were once joined together forming a supercontinent called____

• Panthalassa

• Gondwanaland

• Laurasia

• Pangaea

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It's possibly the most important fossils plant evidence that continents are drifting.

• Glossopteris

• Lystrosaurus

• Mesosaurus

• Cynognathus

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Which among the choices was NOT used by Wegener as an evidence to support the Continental Drift Theory?

• rocks

• fossils

• climate

• magnetic reversal

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What are the evidences gathered by Alfred Wegener to support his Continental Drift Theory?

• continental fit,rocks, fossils,coal deposits, ancient climate, and glaciers scars

• ancient climate in Antarctica and Africa

• remains of dead plants and animals

• observing the map

How does fossil evidence support Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift?

• Similar fossils are found along continental margins that appear to join together

• Fossils are found in areas where the present-day climate could no have supported the organism that made the fossils

• Similar fossils of giant, land-dwelling dinosaurs are found on continents separated by oceans

• All of the choices

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Originally the Continental drift theory was not well received by other scientists. Why?

• There was a competing theory at the time was more believable

• There was no data showing the continents ever moved.

• The scientists did not know the force responsible for moving the continents

• The scientist presenting the data was unreliable

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If coal beds are found in Antarctica, What can you infer about the location of this continent form the past?

• cold

• tropical

• extreme-cold

• extreme- hot

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If you were a cartographer, What will give you an idea that the continents were once joined?

• ocean depth

• shape of the continents

• position of the south pole

• size of the Atlantic Ocean

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