The Continental Drift Hypothesis

The scientist who proposed the idea of continental drift.

• Mrs. Marusarz

• Alfred Wegener

• Bill Nye

• Albert Einstein

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Explain the idea of continental drift.

• The theory that the continents are slowly moving.

• The theory that the continents were once all together.

• The theory that energy is not created or destroyed.

• The theory that continents never move.

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Alfred Wegener developed the theory of __________________ as he noticed that the continents could have once been together like a puzzle.

• pangae

• super continent

• subduction zone

• continental drift

Alfred Wegener believed that the continents once fit together as a super continent called __________________.

• Continental Drift

• Pangaea

• Super Continent

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Which fossils covered more landmasses to help provide evidence of continental drift?

• Coal

• Glossopteris plants

• Appalachian mountain

• Earthworms

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Alfred Wegener used all three of these cluse to support his continental drift hypothesis except.

• climate clues

• fossil clues

• rock clues

• ocean clues

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By using climate clues, Wegener studied the sediments deposited by __________________ in South America, Africa, India, and Australia.

• glaciers

• mountains

• water

• trenches

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A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other collide and uplift, creating mountains.

• convergent

  subduction

  (ocean-to-continent)

  (ocean-to-ocean)

• convergent

  (continent-to-continent)

• divergent

• transform

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A plate boundary where two plates move toward each and collide but the more dense plate goes under the less denser plate creating volcanic mountains.

• convergent

  subduction

  (ocean-to-continent)

  (ocean-to-ocean)

• convergent

  (continent-to-continent)

• divergent

• transform

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A plate boundary where two plates slide horizontally past one another creating friction that commonly causes earthquakes.

• convergent

  subduction

  (ocean-to-continent)

  (ocean-to-ocean)

• convergent

  (continent-to-continent)

• divergent

• transform

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