Earth Quiz 1 Review

Alfred Wegener's theory that explains how continents moved slowly to their current positions over time

• continental drift
• continental divide
• tectonic drift
• glacial drift

All continents connected as one "super continent"

• Gondor
• Krypton
• Pangaea 
• Murica

Grooved bedrock in southern parts of South America, Africa, India and Australia represents ________.

• fossil evidence
• sediment clues
• glacial evidence
• climate evidence

Remains of warm-weather plants and animals that were found in Arctic regions represents ______________.

• fossil evidence
• sediment clues
• glacial evidence
• climate evidence

Where are the youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located?

• at subduction zones

• at mid-ocean ridges

• at fault lines

• at plate boundaries

Which theory explains how the new crust is created at mid-ocean ridges?

• seafloor spreading

• continental drift

• plate tectonic

• plates drift

Fossil plant that helped support the theory of continental drift.

• Mesosaurus

• Lystrosaurus

• Grasshopper

• Glosspteris

Identify the Evidence of Continental Drift

• Matching Fossils in different Continents

• Matching Rock Layers in different Continents

• Continents fit together like a puzzle

• Marine Fossils are found on the top of mountains

Fossils form best when an organism gets buried quickly and has hard parts.

• True

• False

The preserved evidence of the activity of an organism is

• a mold

• trace fossil

• carbon film

• a cast