Continental Drift Theory

What type of evidence supported Wegener's Theory of Continental Drift?

• Evidence of Climate C

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• Fossils

• Mountain Ranges and landforms

• All of the Above

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One of the pieces of fossil evidence Wegener found was from a fern-like plant called what?

• Gabagool

• Glossopteris

• Gladiolus

• Gargantuan

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What are the two continents that fit together based on Wegener's Theory, and that sparked his curiosity to find further evidence to support it?

• India and Asia

• Russia and North America

• Africa and South America

• Africa and Asia

The layer of Earth that is moving as explained by Wegener in his Theory of Continental Drift.

• Thermodynamic Plates

• Tectonic Lithosphere

• Tectonic Plates

• Lithospheric Crust

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Why?

• The scientific technology to prove the movement in Earth's crust did not yet exist.

• Scientist thought Alfred Wegener was a crazy little man

• All of the above

• Scientists could not explain how the continents were moving

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What type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?

• evidence from landforms

• evidence from fossils

• evidence from human remains

• evidence from climate

What do you call the supercontinent landmass formed million years ago?

• Pangea

• Panera

• Polymorphism

• Palendrome

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What do you call the evidence of Wegener's Theory that tells about the remains of an organism that lived long time ago?

• Bones

• Folicles

• Fossils

• Ashes

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What are the three types of Evidence that supports Alfred Wegener's Theory?

• Fossils, Fish, and Land

• Climate, Land forms, and Metamorphosis

• Sedimentary, Magma, and Climate

• Fossils, Land forms, and Climate

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What is the force that moves the continents? 

• Convection Currents in the Mantle

• Radiation in the Mantle

• Convection Currents in the Outer Core

• Conduction in the Mantle

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