1) According to the theory of Continental drift, the locations of continents are a) permanent b) still changing c) always changing 2) The main flaw in the Continental drift theory of Wegener was the lack of a) clear driving mechanisms b) logical reasoning c) support from geologists 3) The names Laurasia and Gondwanaland for the Northern and the Southern parts of the supercontinent were suggested by a) Eduard Suess b) Alfred Wegener c) Abraham Ortelius 4) The Northern part of Pangaea was named a) Panthalassa b) Laurasia c) Gondwanaland d) Tethys e) 5) By observing the shapes of today’s continents show that the east bulge of the South America fits into the west side of a) India b) Africa c) Australia 6) The land bridges between continents were proposed by Eduard Suess in order to explain the existence of _____ in several continents. a) similar climates b) rock formations c) glossopteris fossils d) mountain ranges 7) It was a mammal like the reptile about the size of a small dog. It had a pair of tusks and a snout turned upward. a) Mesosaurus b) Cynognathus c) Lystrosaurus d) Glossopteris 8) It was a warm-blooded, mammal-like the reptile. a) Mesosaurus b) Cynognathus c) Lystrosaurus d) Glossopteris 9) He theorized in 1889 and 1909 that all the continents were once joined together as a supercontinent, whose parts drifted away from each other. a) Alexander du Toit b) Frank Bursley Taylor c) Roberto Mantovani 10) He is an Austrian geologist suggested that there may have been land bridges that connected today’s southern continents. a) Frank Bursley Taylor b) Eduard Suess c) Alexander du Toit 11) His idea was based on the fact that fossils of the Mesosaurus, a marine reptile even older than the dinosaurs were found in both South America and South Africa. a) Frank Bursley Taylor b) Eduard Suess c) Alexander du Toit 12) He explained that the continents were dragged towards the equator by the gravitational pull of the moon, forming the Himalayas and Alps on the southern edges of the continents. a) Frank Bursley Taylor b) Eduard Suess c) Alexander du Toit 13) All the earth’s waters formed one large ocean, also known as a) Tethys b) orogeny c) Panthalassa

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