Continental Drift Lines of Evidence

He is the German meteorologist who proposed a theory that the continents today were once one large landmass that exists 200 million years ago and break into present day continents.

• Albert Einstein

• Isaac Newton

• Alfred Wegener

• Beno Gutenberg

Pangaea in Greek language means

• Big Landmass

• All Landmass

• All Earth

• Supercontinent

Which of the following illustrates the Pangaea during the Jurassic Period?

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Fossils of these freshwater reptiles were found both in South America and Africa and believed to be evidence of being joined before the break-up of Pangaea.

• Mesosaurus and Lystosaurus

• Mesosaurus and Tyrannosaurus

• Stegosaurus and Musosaurus

• Brachiosaurus and Plateosarus

The rock formations in Africa line up with that of South America as if it were a long mountain range.

This supports the following EXCEPT ______.

• Theory of Seafloor Spreading

• Plate Tectonic Theory

• Big Bang Theory

• Continental Drift Theory

The seafloor spreading was proven by these undersea mountain chain in the Atlantic Ocean

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge

• Bermuda Triangle

• Marianas Trench

• Hawaii

These compact and decomposed swamp plants deposits that lived million of years ago were evidences of a drifting continents discovered scattered underneath the continents of South America, Africa, Indian sub-continent, Southeast Asia and Antarctica

• Precambrian rocks

• crude oil

• shale rocks

• coal beds

The two persons who proposed the Seafloor Spreading Theory

• Harry Hess and Robert Dietz

• Harry Hess and Robert Diaz

• Hurry Heist and Robert Deitz

• Harry Dietz and Robert Hess

The following are findings regarding Seafloor Spreading idea EXCEPT

• Rocks are older at the mid-ocean ridge.

• Rocks far from the mid-ocean ridge are older.

• Sediments are thinner at the ridge.

• Rocks at the ocean floor are younger than the rocks at the continents.

Over the last 10 million years, the Earth has experienced how many magnetic reversals per million years?

• 1 - 2 times

• 2 - 3 times

• 3 - 4 times

• 4 - 5 times