What evidence of climate change on continents supports the theory of continental drift?
A plate moves 200 m in 10,000 years. What is its rate in cm/year?
What is the name of the theory that explains why mountain ranges in Africa and South America line up?
A plate moving at a rate of 3 cm/year is moving toward a plate that is 1,500 km away. In how many years will the plates collide?
What name did Wegener give to the single large landmass composed of all continents?
What first caused people to consider that the continents were once one large landmass?
Tropical plant fossils have been found in cold Arctic islands where they cannot survive in the present-day climate of this area. According to Wegener's theory, how were these ancient tropical plants able to survive in Arctic islands?
Lystrosaurus provided which type of evidence supporting continental drift?
On which continent were fossils of both Glossopteris and Lystrosaurus discovered?
Which source of evidence did Wegener use to support his theory of continental drift?
Which two pieces of fossil evidence support the idea of continental drift?
Which piece of evidence suggests that Africa and South America formed Gondwanaland 200 million years ago?
In Wegener's view, what caused mountain ranges to form?
Which land feature supports the theory of continental drift?
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