Continental Drift

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Wegener used a fern-like fossil called ________ to prove that the continents used to be part of a supercontinent.

The word Pangaea means

To support his hypothesis, Alfred Wegener provided evidence from _________, traces of ancient organisms in rock.

Wegener believed that the continents had once been joined in one landmass called

What is Pangaea?

The hypothesis of ________ was that all the continents were once joined as a single supercontinent and have since drifted apart.

Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock is called a

Which type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis?