1) The presence of the same _____ on several continents supports the hypothesis of continental drift. a) Fossils b) Weather c) Erosion d) ice 2) Some early mapmakers thought that the coastline of South America matched the coastline of Asia. a) true b) false 3) Some early mapmakers thought that the coastline of South America matched the coastline of Africa. a) true b) false 4) Scientists at the time rejected Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift because he could not explain? a) How or why Earth’s continents move. b) How animals could be located on other continents c) Where Glaciers were d) How plant fossils were located around the world 5) A lack of explanation for continental drift prevented many scientists from accepting that a single supercontinent called ____ once existed. a) Glomar b) Glossopteris c) Pangaea d) Wegener 6) This is a fossil fern that helped support Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift. a) Gondwanaland b) Kannemeyerid c) Mesosaurus d) Glossopteris 7) Which of these was evidence used to support the hypothesis of continental drift. a) Continental Edges Fit Together Like A Puzzle b) Same Fossils Found On Different Continents c) Climate Seen in Evidence of Continental Ice Sheets d) Rock Structures Show Similar Features e) all above 8) Why did scientists reject Wegener's hypothesis? a) He could not explain how continents moved b) He was German c) He could not explain his evidence sufficiently d) Simply because they didn't like him 9) Could ice caps, similar to the one that covers Antarctica today, exist on these continents in their present locations? a) No, because they are not next to each other b) No, because these places are too warm. c) Yes, because there is evidence of glaciers d) Yes, because these places are cold 10) Which of the following is not a piece of evidence Wegener used to support his theory of continental drift? a) Climate b) Rocks & Mountains c) Fossils d) Human remains 11) Wegener believed that the continents used to be one landmass a) true b) false 12) Wegener's theory of continental drift was not accepted immediately by other scientists because a) the fossil evidence was unreliable b) Wegener could not describe how the continents separated c) Wegener only had evidence from the southern continents d) the rock sequences were incomplete 13) A lack of explanation for continental drift prevented many scientists from accepting that a single continent called once existed. a) Glomar b) Wegener c) Pangaea d) Glossopteris 14) The presence of the same on different continents is evidence for continental drift. a) fossils b) wind systems c) river systems d) weather patterns 15) Why did Wegener think that continental drift could be used to explain rock scarring in South America, India, and Australia? a) Volcanoes moved the seafloor b) Glaciers caused the scarring c) Earthquakes scarred rocks d) Hess proposed this theory 16) Continental drift is the theory that continents drift a) quickly together. b) slowly together c) slowly to their current positions d) to form the new continent Pandora 17) Alfred Wegener hypothesized that Pangaea began to break apart about years ago a) 180 million b) 135 million c) 65 million d) 25 million 18) The theory of continental drift a) was based on the distribution of rock types, fossils and structures b) was accepted by most geologist during Wegener's lifetime c) was based on oceanic fossils and basalt d) suggested that the original land forms were large islands. 19) Which is evidence that the continents were once part of a single landmass? a) fossils b) coal found in cold climates c) similar rock formations on facing edges of continents d) all of these 20) The fact that South America and Africa were once joined is for Pangaea. a) rock layer evidence b) fossil evidence c) puzzle piece evidence d) d. mineral deposit evidence 21) Glossopteris and Mesosaurus would be examples of this type of Pangaea supportive evidence. a) rock layer record b) puzzle piece record c) fossil record d) mineral deposit record 22) Which two continents were used as evidence for the continental puzzle? a) North America and Africa b) South America and Asia c) South America and North America d) South America and Africa

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