Ch 17 Section 1

What is the name of the scientist that first hypothesized that the continents all fit together and were once a single land mass.   (a)  

• Albert Einstein 
• Alfred Wegener
• Dmitri Mendeleev
• Bill Nye

The idea that all the continents slowly move over Earth's Surface became known as (a)  

• Continental Drift
• floating continents 
• Plate Tectonics
• convection currents

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Why did most scientist reject Wegener's hypothesis of the continental drift?

• He had no physical evidence to back up his claim.
• He had no explanation of how the continents moved
• He was not a real scientist.
• The did not reject his hypothesis.

The name of the "super-continent" where all of the present continents were joined as one large continent.  (a)  

• Pangea
• South America
• Atlantis
• Hawaii

What is one piece of evidence that caused Wegener to think that continents moved?

• He found an old map of the world that showed movement.
• He found similar fossils on different continents that are separated by oceans.
• He proved his hypothesis with an experiment that measured movement.
• He observed the continents moving with his own eyes.

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Any trace of an ancient organism that is preserved in rock is called (a)  

• fossil
• geode
• igneous rock
• mesosaurus

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What two specific continents fit together most noticeably? (a)  

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

What specific technology did Wegener use in his study? (a)  

• GPS
• Sonar
• Radar
• Maps

Early mapmakers thought continents might have moved based on their observations of (a)  

• magnetism
• rock and fossil evidence
• matching coastlines
• earthquakes and floods

Pangaea was an ancient supercontinent made up of

• South America, India, Australia, and South Africa

• The United States, Greenland, and Europe

• Antarctica, India, and South America

• all of Earth's continents

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