PC: Continental Drift

Continental drift was proposed

• Wegener
• Hutton
• Hess
• Smith

What piece of evidence supporting continental drift states that the continents fit together like a puzzle?

• puzzle pieces
• mountain range evidence
• fossil evidence
• rock deposit and glacial evidence

What piece of evidence supporting continental drift states that the freshwater Mesosaurus can be found on both the South America and Africa continents?

• puzzle pieces
• fossil evidence
• mountain range evidence
• rock and glacial deposit evidence

What is the name of the ancient continent that existed 250 million years ago?

• Laurasia
• Gonwonaland
• Pangaea
• Europa

The continents fit together perfectly as puzzle pieces which is why Wegener proposed continental drift.

• True
• False

Why was Wegener's continental drift NOT widely accepted in the scientific community
?

• He did not enough evidence.
• He could not prove HOW it happened (rock moving on rock)?
• He never published his work.
• No one liked him.

Internal processes of the earth are driven by the heat of the earth's interior and build up the earth's surface.

• True
• False

Wegener observed scratches from glaciers in Africa and India where it is currently too hot for glaciers to form. This is considered...

• Fossil Evidence

• Rock Formation Evidence

• Climate Evidence

• Objective Evidence

What drew Wegener's curiosity pertaining to South America and Africa?

• They look to be the same shape

• They look like they fit like puzzle parts

• They are about the same size

• They have the same latitude

What evidence did Wegener use to support 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