Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Lesson

Who came up with the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess

• Albert Einstein

• Alfred Wegener

• Bill Nye the Science Guy

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What is the theory of continental drift?

• New crust is being created at mid-ocean ridges and is pushing away old crust.

• The continents have always stayed in their current location.

• The same fossils of plants and animals can be found on the same continents.

• The continents had once been joined in a single landmass and have since drifted apart.

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Which two continents did Wegener notice fit together like pieces of a puzzle?

• Africa and North America

• South America and Africa

• South America and Europe

• Asia and South America

How did fossil evidence support Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift?

• Similar fossils are found along continental margins that appear to join together.

• Fossils are found in areas where present-day climate could not have supported the organisms that made the fossils.

• Similar fossils of land-dwelling dinosaurs are found on continents separated by oceans.

• All of the above.

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The hypothesis that Pangaea was a supercontinent that broke apart causing the continents to move into their current locations is known as continental ______.

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Hypothesis that the continents once formed a single land mass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations is called?

• Landmass shift

• Mass break away

• Continental Drift

• Wet Pancaking

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The hypothesis that land masses spread apart from each other and have done so in the past is known as

• Divergent Plate Boundary 

• Tension

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental drift

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The idea that the continents move around the Earth's surface is called?

• Pangea

• continental drift

• plate tectonics

• sea-floor spreading

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Who is the person credited with developing the theory of continental drift?

• Harry Hess

• Alfredo Sauce

• Alfred Wegener

• Alfred the Butler

The theory that explains the movement of continents over time

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

• Plate Motion

• Seafloor Spreading

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