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WorksheetsContinental Drift and Plate Tectonics
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 16mins
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Class
Date
1.
Who is the scientist who proposed Continental Drift Theory?
a)
Albert Einstein
b)
Alfred Wegener
c)
Isaac Newton
d)
John Dalton
2.
What do you call the evidence of Wegener's Theory that tells about the remains of an organism that lived long time ago?
a)
Ashes
b)
Bones
c)
Follicles
d)
Fossils
3.
What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed million years ago?
a)
Pangea
b)
Asia
c)
Pantallasa
d)
Eurasi
4.
What are the remains of organism noticed by Wegener that are found the same in two continents?
a)
Leaves and flowers
b)
Ice and mountains
c)
Plants and animals
d)
Dinosaurs and reptiles
5.
An enormous single large mass.
a)
Pannotia
b)
Pangaea
c)
Rodinia
6.
Which evidence was not used by Wegener to support his continental drift theory?
a)
South America & Africa coastlines
b)
Coal beds in Antarctica & Britain
c)
Plant & reptile fossils
d)
Earthquake patterns
7.
Other scientists rejected Wegener's Continental Drift Theory because...
a)
He did not have evidence
b)
He couldn't explain how the continents moved
c)
He wasn't a scientist
d)
He was a bad communicator
8.
What is Pangaea?
a)
an icy sheet which covered many continents
b)
fossil of a fern found on many continents
c)
a mountain belt connecting many continents
d)
a super continent that contained all the continents
9.
What is the theory of continental drift?
a)
the continents move slowly over Earth's surface
b)
continents moved millions of years ago but are now fixed
c)
the continents were once fixed, but have just now begun to move
d)
the continents are fixed in position
10.
The diagram represents the movement of the mantle under the earth's crust. Which process is represented by the diagram?
a)
rotation
b)
conduction
c)
radiation
d)
convection
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