Continental Drift

Question 1

A plate moves 200 m in 10,000 years. What is its rate in cm/year?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

2 cm/year

Question 2

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?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

50,000,000 years

Question 3

Which two continents contain fossils of Mesosaurus, an extinct reptile, in similar regions of Pangaea?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Africa and South America

Question 4

What is the name of the theory that explains why mountain ranges in Africa and South America line up?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

continental drift theory

Question 5

Which land feature supports the theory of continental drift?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

coal fields

Question 6

What evidence of climate change on continents supports the theory of continental drift?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

signs that glaciers existed in South Africa

Question 7

Which three continents contain coal fields that provide evidence for continental drift?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

South America, North America, and Eurasia

Question 8

On which continent were fossils of both Glossopteris and Lystrosaurus discovered?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Antarctica

Question 9

Lystrosaurus provided which type of evidence supporting continental drift?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

fossil evidence

Question 10

What name did Wegener give to the single large landmass composed of all continents?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Pangaea

Continental Drift Answers