ch 5 L-2 Google notes quiz

Who proposed that all continents were once connected?

• Charles Darwin

• Isaac Newton

• Alfred Wegener

• Albert Einstein

What name did Alfred Wegener give to the supercontinent where all continents were once connected?

• Gondwana

• Laurasia

• Pangaea

• Atlantis

What type of evidence did Wegener use to support his theory of continental drift?

• Weather patterns

• Fossils of the same animals on different continents

• Ocean currents

• Star constellations

What is the term for the movement of continents to their present location?

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

• Seafloor Spreading

• Earthquake Shift

What evidence supports the idea that continents were once joined together?

• Similar fossils found on different continents

• Different climates on each continent

• Unique animals on each continent

• Different languages spoken on each continent

Which plant's fossils are found on all southern continents, suggesting they were once connected?

• Glossopteris

• Mesosaurus

• Lystrosaurus

• Ginkgo

Where have the remains of the freshwater reptile Mesosaurus been found?

• South America and Africa

• North America and Europe

• Asia and Australia

• Antarctica and India

What does the presence of Lystrosaurus fossils in Africa, Antarctica, and India suggest?

• These continents were once connected

• Lystrosaurus could fly

• Lystrosaurus lived in water

• Lystrosaurus was a plant

What was discovered under the Atlantic Ocean in 1950?

• A coral reef

• A mountain range

• A deep trench

• A large island

According to the model of plate tectonics, what is the Earth's surface broken into?

• Continents

• Oceans

• Pieces or plates

• Mountains