Pangea STEMscopedia Activity

This layer of Earth is the thickest part

• crust
• outer core
• mantle
• inner core

What is Pangaea?

• The name of a German Scientist
• the name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago
• another name for continental drift
• the name of an ancient fossil

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Plate movement is caused by ______________.

• the rotation of the Earth
• ocean tides
• convection currents in the mantle
• the moon's gravity

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

• Harry Hess
• Galileo
• Alfred Wegener
• Newton

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What is created when two continental plates converge together?  

• Mountains
• Tsunami
• Earthquake
• Volcano

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Mr. Jones, an archeologist, travels to study land animal fossils from millions of years ago.  He has found fossils of the smae land animals in eastern South America and western Africa.  Which conclusion best supports Mr. Jones' findings? 

• The 2 continents were once joined together as part of a larger continent.  
• Land animals found from fossils collected from the west coast of Africa are similar to the ones found on the east coast of South America
• Early Europeans became Zombies as a Result of the Rock coming to save the world in the movie San Andreas
• The animals developed on the two continents at the exact same time

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Andrew found warm-weather plant fossils while on an expedition to Antarctica.  Which conclusion best supports his find?  

• The seeds of plants were carried by flying dinosaurs that escaped Jurrassic Park
• The island was once closer to the equator, but has since drifted to its current location
• Ancient Mariners transported the plants to the island.  
• The plants drifted on the ocean currents to the island.  

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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

How does fossil evidence support Wegener's hypothesis of Pangaea and today's theory of Plate Tectonics?

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

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

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

• All of the above

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This piece of evidence that Alfred Wegener used to prove the continents were once connected involved finding remains of once-living organisms on different continents.

• jigsaw evidence

• fossil evidence

• rock evidence

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