Continental Drift
The best example of how neighboring continents seem to fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces is _____.
Africa and South America
The scientist who proposed the idea of continental drift was _____.
Alfred Wagner
The Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States appear to be a part of the same mountain range that continues in _____.
Great Britian and Scandinavia
The supercontinent that existed about 200 million years ago was named
Pangea
The process by which lithospheric plates move apart creating spaces that are filled with hot magma is called _____.
Seafloor spreading
Which of the following was confirmation that Wegener's hypothesis was correct?
Seafloor spreading
Wegener named the supercontinent Pangaea, which means _____.
all lands
Glossopteris is an ancient, extinct species of ______ found in South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica.
plant
The first evidence supporting the theory of continental drift was _____.
the fitting together of neighboring continents like jigsaw puzzle pieces
The discovery of tropical plant and animal fossils in Antarctica support the idea that at one time this continent supported a _____ climate.
warmer
