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Continental drift

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name

Class

Date

Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

Harry Hess

Galileo

Alfred Wegener

Newton

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

Africa and North America

South America and Europe

South America and Africa

Antartica and Africa

Fossils on which continent show that it used to support forests with plant life and animal life?

Antarctica

India

North America

Africa

Wegener thought that all the continents were once together in one large continent called _______.

Laurasia

Eurasia

Pangaea

Gondwana

Was continental drift accepted in Wegener's lifetime?

Yes

Why did no one believe Wegener's theory?

He could not explain HOW the continents moved.

He was a meteorologist and not a geologist.

His evidence was not supporting the hypothesis.

He didn't use the right technology to gather data.

This is a picture of glacier scars found in Africa. What are these evidence for?

Africa has always been near the equator

Africa was once in an area of the Earth that had a very cold climate

The continents have not moved

sea floor spreading

What does the theory of continental drift state?

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

Continents are stationary and do not move

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

none of the above

How long ago is Pangea believed to have existed?

200-300 million years ago

1000-2000 years ago

10,000-20,000 years ago

20-30 billion years ago

10.

The best evidence that the continents were once connected is that they have matching

Weather, fossils, and Rock Types

Rock types, fossils, coastlines

Coastlines, weather, rock types

Coastlines, weather, fossils

11.

Which of the following is the best evidence that Earth's continents were once in vastly different positions than they are today?

Penguins only found in southern hemisphere

Fossils of tropical plants found in Antarctica

Volcanoes encircling Pacific Ocean

Major rivers from deltas from continental erosion

12.

Which evidence was not used by Wegener to support his continental drift theory?

South America & Africa coastlines

Coal beds in Antarctica & Britain

Plant & reptile fossils

Earthquake patterns

13.

The following are animal fossil evidences of the Continental Drift theory except?

Glossopteris

Cynognathus

Lystrosaurus

Mesosaurus

14.

Mesosaurus fossils are found between where?

Africa and India

Africa and South America

Antarctica and Australia

India and Antarctica

15.

Glossopteris fossils are found between where?

South America and Africa

Antarctica and Australia

Africa and India

All of them

16.

What is a theory?

An idea based on hypothesis and problems observed using five senses

A belief, policy, or procedure that is not proposed or followed as the basis of action

A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.

A set of concepts that uses tests without evidences but uses the scientific method in order to prove a specific phenomena that happened on Earth or may happen to Earth

17.

What is the theory that states that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core.

Theory of Evolution

Heliocentric Theory

Geocentric Theory

Continental Drift Theory

18.

What do you call the northern part of Pangea after it moved million years ago?

Russia

Asia

Eurasia

Gondwanaland

19.

What is the force that moves the continents?

Conduction

Convection

Radiation

Conveyor belts

20.

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

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Continental drift

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

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