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Continental Drift

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?
a)
Africa and North America
b)
South America and Europe
c)
South America and Africa
d)
 Antartica and Africa
2.

What is this a picture of?

a)

plate tectonics

b)

continental drift

c)

pangaea

d)

glacier scaring

3.
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
4.

What are the three types of Evidence that supports Alfred Wegener's Theory?

a)

Fossils, Fish, and Land

b)

Sedimentary, Magma, and Climate

c)

Fossils, Land forms, and Climate

d)

Climate, Land forms, and Metamorphic rock

5.

Where did Wegener find plant fossils that today would not be able to survive on that type of land?

a)

North America

b)

Antarctica

c)

China

d)

India

6.
This is a picture of glacier scars found in Africa.  What are these evidence for?
a)
Africa has always been near the equator
b)
Africa was once in an area of the Earth that had a very cold climate
c)
The continents have not moved
d)
sea floor spreading
7.

What does the theory of continental drift state?

a)

The continents were once joined in a super-continent and have moved over time

b)

Continents are stationary and do not move

c)

The Earth is broken into lithospheric plates that move due to convection currents

d)

none of the above

8.

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

a)

Africa and North America

b)

South America and Europe

c)

South America and Africa

d)

Antarctica and Africa

9.

Evidence of continental drift includes:

a)

plants and animals match

b)

the shape of the continents

c)

the oceans are close together

d)

rocks match

10.

TRUE or FALSE

North America and Europe are moving closer together.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

11.

This picture is an example of which type of evidence?

a)

matching fossil

b)

matching land formation

c)

climate change

d)

memorial movement

12.

This picture is an example of which type of evidence?

a)

matching fossil

b)

matching land formation

c)

climate change

d)

memorial movement

13.

This picture is an example of which type of evidence?

a)

matching fossil

b)

climate change

c)

matching land formation

d)

memorial movement