Continental Drift TEST

Wegener believed that the continents used to be one landmass.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

A single supercontinent where all the continents were together.

• Glomar

• Wegener

• Pangaea

• Glossopteris

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Wegener's theory of continental drift was not accepted immediately by other scientists because

• the fossil evidence was unreliable

• Wegener could not describe how the continents separated

• Wegener only had evidence from the southern continents

• the rock sequences were imcomplete

The presence of the same _______ on different continents is evidence for continental drift.

• fossils

• wind systems

• river systems

• weather patterns

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Why did Wegener think that continental drift could be used to explain rock scarring in South America, India, and Australia?

• Volcanoes moved the seafloor

• Glaciers caused the scarring

• Earthquakes scarred rocks

• Hess proposed this theory

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

A lack of explanation for continental drift prevented many scientists from accepting that a single continent called _______ once existed.

• Glossopteris

• Pangaea

• Glomar

• Wegener effect

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Continental drift is the theory that continents drift......

• quickly together

• slowly together

• slowly to their current positions

• to form the new continent Pandora

• all of the above

Alfred Wegener hypothesized that Pangaea began to break apart about ________ years ago.

• 25 million

• 65 million

• 180 million

• 250 million

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

The theory of continental drift......

• was based on the distribution of rock types, fossils, and structures.

• was accepted by most geologist during Wegener's lifetime.

• was based on oceanic fossils and basalt.

• suggested that the original land forms were large islands.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Which is evidence that the continents were once part of a single landmass?

• fossils

• coal found in cold climates

• similar rock formations on facing edges of continents

• all of the above

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5