13.1- Drifting Continents

Question 1

Who came up with the idea of continental drift?

Answer 1

Alfred Wegener

Question 2

Continental Drift

Answer 2

A hypothesis that proposed that Earth’s continents had once been joined as a single landmass that broke apart and sent the continents adrift

Question 3

Pangea

Answer 3

Meaning “all of the Earth”
A single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago

Question 4

Evidence of Continental Drift

Answer 4

Rock Formations
Fossil Evidence
Climatic Evidence

Question 5

What did Wegner found as rock evidence

Answer 5

Identical layers of rock in Appalachin Mountains and mountains in Greenland/Europe

Question 6

What did Wegner find from fossils

Answer 6

Fossils of plants and animals that once lived close together on land were seperated contientns

Question 7

What did Wegner find from climates

Answer 7

A fern plant had been found in many places on Earth

Question 8

What did Wegner find from coal

Answer 8

Found coal from antartica in warm, wet regions