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Continental Drift and Pangaea Concepts

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name

Class

Date

The circular arrows inside the Earth's Mantle represent what type of motion, that drives ALL plate movement?

Convergent Boundary

Ocean Currents

Convection Currents

Transform Boundary

What is Pangaea?

The name of a German Scientist

the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago

another name for continental drift

the name of an ancient fossil

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

Harry Hess

Galileo

Alfred Wegener

Newton

Mr. Jones, an archeologist, travels to study land animal fossils from millions of years ago. He has found fossils of the smae land animals in eastern South America and western Africa. Which conclusion best supports Mr. Jones' findings?

The 2 continents were once joined together as part of a larger continent.

Land animals found from fossils collected from the west coast of Africa are similar to the ones found on the east coast of South America

Early Europeans became Zombies as a Result of the Rock coming to save the world in the movie San Andreas

The animals developed on the two continents at the exact same time

Scientists did not believe Wegner's theory because Continental Drift is a slow process and there is no explanation for...

how to measure the continents.

how the continents move.

Wegener being a silly man.

Antarctica having fern fossils.

Which is the best statement for fossil evidence?

Mesosaurus fossils found on same continent, many places

Mesosaurus fossils found on several continents and they could swim in fresh water

Mesosaurus fossils found on two continents that are connected today

Mesosaurus fossils found on several continents and they could not swim, so the continents must have been connected at one time.

Why was Wegener's theory not accepted?

He had no proof of how they were moving

He had no evidence

He was married

He was not a Scientist

The Theory of Continental Drift states that Pangaea broke apart and the continents "drifted" away from each other

True

False

Glossopteris grew in warm, swampy areas proving Antarctica used to have a ________________climate.

warm and wet

hot and dry

cold and icy

temperate

10.

Of the following statements, which best supports the continental drift theory?

All oceans are salty

Igneous rocks are found on all continents

Fossils of the same species of extinct land plants have been found in both South America and Africa

Early humans migrated to North America over a land bridge from eastern Asia

11.

Mesosaurus fossils are found between where?

Africa and India

Africa and South America

Antarctica and Australia

India and Antarctica

12.

Glossopteris fossils are found between where?

South America and Africa

Antarctica and Australia

Africa and India

All of them

13.

What was the name of Alfred Wegeners Theory?

Seafloor Spreading Theory

Pangaea Theory

Plate Tectonics Theory

Continental Drift Theory

14.

What causes the continents to move?

The bass in Mrs. Bailey's car

Plate Tectonics

Jackhammer

Fossils

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Continental Drift and Pangaea Concepts

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 19mins

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