Continental Drift

Who came up with the theory of Continental Drift?

• Charles Darwin

• Isaac Newton

• Ms. Daumen

• Alfred Wegener

What is the name of the last supercontinent?

• Panterra

• Pangaea

• Super Continent

• Continent Drift

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Which is NOT evidence Wegener used to support the theory of Continental Drift?

• Fossils of organisms

• Glaciers that used to exist

• Currently living animals and plants

• Patterns of rock layers

What process CAUSES tectonic plates to drift apart from each other?

• The Pangaea Effect

• Continental Drift

• Subduction

• Seafloor Spreading

Fossils of animals without wings or swimming speeds can be found in South America and Africa. This supports that those continents used to be together because...

• The animals had to be able to walk from place to place

• The animals used to have wings but don't anymore

• The fossils moved to the area AFTER the continents moved

• This doesn't support continental drift

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How does climate support continental drift theory?

• There is evidence of tropical environments in now-cold places

• There is evidence of glaciers in now-warm places like Australia

• Two of these are right

• Neither of these are right

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