Continental Drift Quiz

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

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• pangea
• glacier scaring

What two specific continents fit together most noticeably?

• Africa and North America
• South America and Europe
• South America and Africa
• Antartica and Africa

How does fossil evidence support Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift?

• Similar fossils are found along continental margins that appear to join together.
• Fossils are found in areas where the present-day climate could not have supported the organisms that made the fossils.
• Similar fossils of giant, land-dwelling dinosaurs are found on continents separated by oceans.
• all of the above

Scientists today believes that there have been several supercontinents 
like Pangaea and more will eventually form.

• yes
• no
• Maybe. IDK.

Then what "mechanism" is behind the theory to work?

• Plate tectonics 
• Revolution of the Earth
• Magic
• Plate Boundaries

What is the force that moves the continents? 

• Conduction 
• Convection 
• Radiation 
• Conveyor belts 

Originally the Continental drift theory was not well received by other scientist.  Why? 

• There was a competing theory at the time that was more believable. 
• There was no data showing the continents ever moved. 
• The scientists did not know the force responsible for moving the continents. 
• The scientist presenting the data was unreliable.  

When was the theory of Continental Drift widely accepted?

• 1920s
• 1930s
• 1940s
• 1950s

An enormous single large mass known as ________ was hypothisized.

• Pannotia
• Pangaea
• Rodinia