Pangaea and Continental Drift

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Who is credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

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Alfred Wegener

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What is this a picture of?

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Pangaea

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How long ago is Pangaea believed to have existed?

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200-300 million years ago

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Pangaea

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All Earth

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What type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis? Options: Evidence from mountains, Evidence from fossils, Evidence from human remains, Evidence from climate

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Evidence from human remains

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The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's continents are in constant motion is called ________

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Continental Drift

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

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

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A super continent that existed 200 million years ago was

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Pangaea

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What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

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Africa and South America

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Prefix "geo"

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Earth