What name did Wegener give to the single large landmass composed of all continents?
A plate moves 200 m in 10,000 years. What is its rate in cm/year?
Which coastlines most closely match each other and are, therefore, used as evidence to support Wegener’s theory?
Which source of evidence did Wegener use to support his theory of continental drift?
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?
Which two continents contain fossils of Mesosaurus, an extinct reptile, in similar regions of Pangaea?
What first caused people to consider that the continents were once one large landmass?
Which two pieces of fossil evidence support the idea of continental drift?
Which three continents contain coal fields that provide evidence for continental drift?
On which continent were fossils of both Glossopteris and Lystrosaurus discovered?
Lystrosaurus provided which type of evidence supporting continental drift?
Which piece of evidence suggests that Africa and South America formed Gondwanaland 200 million years ago?
A plate moves south at a rate of 2 cm/year. How many meters south from its original location will the plate be in 4,000 years?
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?
In Wegener's view, what caused mountain ranges to form?
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