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Alfred Wegener created the idea called
a) continental drift.
b) convection currents.
c) plate tectonics.
d) fixed continents.

Continental drift is the idea that
a) continents were once all together and broke apart over time.
b) continents move up and down.
c) continents don't move.
d) continents were once all connected and erosion separated them.

Why was the idea of continental drift originally rejected by other scientists?
a) No one could explain how continents could move.
b) There was only one type of evidence to support it.
c)
d)

Which of the following is not evidence of continental drift?
a) Ancient artifacts
b) Continents have a puzzle-like fit
c) Fossil patterns
d) Mountain Chain patterns

The name given to all the continents connected together 200 million years ago:
a) Pangaea
b) Eurasia
c) The Americas
d) Plate tectonics

Fossils of tropical plants and animals found in the arctic is best explained by
a) Artic landmass once being in a tropical location.
b) A land bridge between the tropics and the arctic.
c) Plants and animals migrating by water and wind.
d)

Glaciers are evidence of plate tectonics because
a) they are evidence that a group of continents was connected near the southern pole.
b) they show the Earth froze over everywhere at once.
c) can spread plants and animals over the planet.
d)

Mountain chains are evidence of continental drift because
a) the mountains would have formed together and moved with continents when they broke apart.
b) developed on their own in different places.
c) they would have formed when the planet formed and never changed.
d)

The idea of continental drift was
a) right.
b) wrong.
c)
d)

Magnetic patterns discovered on the seafloor show that
a) Earth's tectonic plates change over time.
b) Earth's tectonic plates always stay the same.
c) plate tectonics is a waste of time.
d)

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