Continental Drift Review

What is the theory that continents were all once together and have drifted apart?

• american movement

• continental plates

• continental drift

• memorial drift

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What was Wegener's hypothesis?

• all continents are joined in a single landmass as they have been for a long time

• all continents are situated as they have been forever

• all continents were far apart and have joined into a single landmass

• all continents were joined in a single landmass and have drifted apart

This picture is an example of which type of evidence?

• matching fossil

• matching land formation

• climate change

• memorial movement

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Why was Wegener's theory rejected?

• he really was a crazy little man

• he found evidence of matching fossils, land formations and climate evidence

• he could not identify the cause behind continental drift

• he did not have the support of his fellow scientists

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

• Harry Hess

• Alfredo Sauce

• Alfred Wegener

• Alfred the Butler

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The theory that explains the movement of continents over time

• Plate Tectonics

• Continental Drift

• Plate Motion

• Seafloor Spreading

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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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