Antarctica Continental Drift

The existence of coal beds in Antarctica indicates that the continent once was____.

• part of Africa

• closer to the Equator

• cold and dry

• farther from the Equator

____ is a fossil fern that helped support Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift.

• Gondwanaland

• Kannemeyerid

• Mesosaurus

• Glossopteris

Scientists at the time rejected Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift because he could not explain how or why Earth's continents move.

• True

• False

Some early mapmakers thought that the coastline of South America matched the coastline of Asia.

• True
• False

Many early mapmakers thought Earth’s continents had moved based on

• plate boundary locations.
• climatic data.
• fossil evidence.
• matching coastlines.

What is the name of Alfred Wegener's hypothesis about moving landmasses?

• continental movement
• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• seafloor spreading

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

Wegener thought that all the continents were once together in one large continent called _______.

• Laurasia

• Eurasia

• Pangaea

• Caledonia

What evidence did Wegener use in his theory?

• Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces 
• glacier scars and other climate evidence from temperature
• mountain ranges and rocks line up across continents
• all of the above

Fossils on which continent show that it used to support forests with plant life and animal like?

• Antartica
• India
• North America
• Africa