Continental Drift and Pangea Quiz

When did Pangea begin to fracture into the continents as we know them today?

• About 335 million years ago

• About 200 million years ago

• About 150 million years ago

• About 750 million years ago

Who first proposed the idea of continental drift?

• Alexander du Toit

• Harry Hess

• Alfred Wegener

• Maurice Ewing

What was the driving force behind the continents according to Arthur Holmes?

• Convective flows of matter in the depths of the earth

• Magnetic fields

• Tidal forces

• Solar radiation

What did Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen discover in 1953?

• Trenches extended along submarine ridges into deep faults in the Earth's crust

• The existence of a new supercontinent

• The formation of the first ocean

• The discovery of a new species of fish

What was the name of the ancient ocean that surrounded Pangea?

• Pacific

• Panthalassa

• Tethys

• Atlantic

Which scientist suggested that in the future the continents will reunite into a supercontinent called Pangea Ultima?

• Alfred Wegener

• Arthur Holmes

• Maurice Ewing

• Harry Hess

What did the British geologist Arthur Holmes suggest as the driving force behind the continents?

• Convective flows of matter in the depths of the earth

• Tidal forces

• Magnetic fields

• Solar radiation

What did Alexander du Toit propose about the ancient supercontinents?

• There was only one supercontinent, Pangea

• There were two supercontinents, Asia and Gondwana land

• There were no ancient supercontinents

• There were three supercontinents, Laurasia, Gondwana, and Pangea

What did Harry Hess discover as the main driving force of global plate tectonics?

• Mid-ridge system where new oceanic crust was constantly being born

• Tidal forces

• Solar radiation

• Magnetic fields

What is the term used to describe the supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras?

• Gondwana

• Laurasia

• Pangea

• Rodinia