Pangaea Lesson Exit Ticket

Hypothesis that the continents once formed a single land mass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations is called?

• Landmass shift

• Mass break away

• Continental Drift

• Wet Pancaking

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What is one piece of evidence that was found that helped Wegener's theory become accepted?

Answer explanation

• Matching fossils – Fossil organisms found on different continents.

• Rock types – Broken mountain ranges lining up between continents.

• Climate evidence – Glacial deposits in regions that are now tropical.

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Identify the different layers in the diagram.

a

b

c

Convection Current

Asthenosphere

Lithosphere

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Plate movement is caused by ______________.

• the rotation of the Earth
• ocean tides
• convection currents in the mantle
• the moon's gravity

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Which best explains mantle convection?

• Warmer and cooler material in the mantle move down.

• Cooler material in the mantle moves down, and warmer material in the mantle moves up.

• Warmer and cooler material in the mantle move up

• Warmer material in the mantle moves down, and cooler material in the mantle moves up.

____________ is the theory that the lithosphere is divided into plates that are always moving.

• Plate tectonics
• Mid-Ocean ridge
• Divergent
• Fault

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