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The Continental Drift

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the name of all the land together?

a)

Mass of land

b)

Pangea

c)

Mars

d)

Earth

2.

What is the continental drift?

a)

seperation

b)

creation of multiple contintents

c)

rolling hills

d)

tectonic plates

3.

Who discovered the drift?

a)

Barack Obama

b)

Alfred Wegener

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

Albert

Einstein

4.

What evidence was there?

a)

fossils, rocks, glaciers

b)

tectonic plates, wind

c)

trees, fossils, animals

d)

fossils, a map

5.

Was Alfred made out to be a joke because he had no evidence?

a)

Yes

b)

No

c)

I don't know

6.

Which way do the tectonic plates move?

a)

Away from each other

b)

Against each other

c)

On top of each other

d)

Head on collision

7.

When was the idea of the drift accepted?

a)

after 1930

b)

after 1950

c)

in the 1970s

d)

after 1960

8.

When was the hypothesis of the drift proposed?

a)

1912

b)

1920

c)

1917

d)

1915