Continental Drift Vocabulary

The German scientist who first proposed the Theory of Continental Drift 100 years ago?

• Harry Hess
• Penny Pangea
• Alfred Wegener
• Gary Gondwana

All of the continents were once part of one large continent called...

• Panacea
• Pangea
• North America
• Gondwana

The continents move very slowly, only a few __________per year.

• meters
• kilometers
• centimeters
• miles

The east coast of South America seems to fit into the wet coast of Africa, this evidence for Continental Drift is called...

• fit/shape of continents
• fossil evidence
• geologic evidence
• climate evidence

India, Australia, South America, and Africa all have deep grooves or scratches in rocks which is climate evidence of ....

• erosion
• dinosaurs
• glaciers
• aliens

Another piece of evidence in the theory of Continental Drift is __________ evidence of a giant fern named Glossopteris.

• geologic

• fit/shape

• glacial

• fossil/climate

Glossopteris grew in warm, swampy areas proving Antarctica used to have a ________________climate.

• warm and wet
• hot and dry
• cold and icy
• temperate

Because Glossopteris seeds cannot travel across the ocean and grow in warm, swampy climates, these fossils are evidence of ...

• Pangea existing

• Continental Drift

• changing climates

• all of the above

Wegner's geologic evidence for Continental Drift comes from the Caledonian and Appalachian mountains which are made of the same __________ and are the same ________.

• rock; trees
• volcanic rock; age
• oceanic rock; age
• volcanic rock; size

Scientists did not believe Wegner's theory because Continental Drift is a slow process and there is no explanation for...

• how to measure the continents.
• how the continents move.
• Wegener being a silly man.
• Antarctica having fern fossils.