1) What is Continental Drift a) the idea that the continents will stay together forever b) the idea that the world's landmasses are moving over time c) Pangaea d) Continental Drift is fake 2) Who came up with the idea of continental drift? a) Alfred Wagon b) Andrew Wegener c) Alfred Wegener d) Isaac Newton 3) What is the name of the supercontinent? a) Pangaea b) Laurasia c) Glossopteris d) Panthalassa 4) What are the four different evidences that Alfred Wegener used? a) He found no evidence b) geometric, fossil, mountain, and climate c) geometric, fossil, mountain, and weather d) geometric, mountain, climate 5) What does the word Pangaea mean? a) Earth b) All Land c) Some Land d) It means nothing 6) What is geometric evidence? a) The continents appear to fit together like puzzle pieces b) The continents don't fit together like puzzle pieces c) The continents are shapes d) None of the above 7) What is fossil evidence? a) There is no fossil evidence b) Fossils are found on every continent c) Fossils can only be found on two continents d) Fossils of the same species are found on the matching coastlines of continents 8) What is mountain evidence? a) mountains are cool b) Mountains end on one coastline and pick back up on another c) Mountains are found on every continent d) There is no mountain evidence 9) What is climate evidence? a) places that used to be hot are now cold and places that used to be cold are now hot b) places that used to be hot are still hot c) There is no climate evidence d) places that used to be cold are now cold 10) True or False: Wegener's idea of continental drift was accepted by other scientists. a) True b) False 11) Why did other scientist's reject Alfred Wegener's idea of continental drift a) he didn't have enough evidence b) the continents were never together c) he couldn't explain how the continents moved 12) the crust and upper mantle make up the Earth's _________ a) lithosphere b) asthenosphere c) atmosphere d) mantle 13) Scientists have observed that the continents move apart or come together at speeds of a few centimeters per a) year b) day c) decade(10 years) d) century 14) Earth's crust is neither created nor destroyed at which boundary type? a) transform b) convergent c) divergent 15) The ______________ is an example of a transform boundary a) Appalachian Mountains b) Himalayan Mountains c) San Andreas Fault 16) What does the word convergent mean? a) collide/crash b) move apart c) it means nothing d) scrape past 17) What does the word divergent mean? a) collide/crash b) move apart c) it means nothing d) scrape past 18) What happens at a transform boundary a) the plates crash b) the plates move apart c) the plates scrape past each other 19) Where do most of the world's volcanoes and earthquakes happen/ a) at plate boundaries b) they can happen anywhere c) on coastlines 20) What is the definition of a hotspot? a) Hawaii b) a place along a coastline c) a spot that is hot d) a place that is volcanically active even though it's not near plate boundaries 21) What can we learn from studying fossils? a) what time period plants and animals existed b) which types of food animals may have eaten c) that certain plants and animals no longer exist d) all of the other answers are correct 22) What can become a fossil a) plants b) animals c) shells d) all of the other answers are correct 23) Which of the following statements is true? a) fossils of bones, teeth, shells, and animal tracks teach us about things that lived long ago b) only bones teach us about organisms that lived long ago c) extinct animals are the only organisms that formed fossils d) we cannot learn anything from shell fossils 24) Finding a fossil of a warm-weather plant in the arctic can tell us what? a) some plants grow in rock b) the land was not always a cold area c) rock is always covered in ice d) the arctic is not a very old place 25) What is the law of superposition a) the oldest rock layer is at the bottom and the youngest is at the top b) the youngest rock layer is at the bottom and the oldest is at the top c) all rock layers are the same age 26) most fossils are found in this type of rock a) sedimentary b) igneous c) metamorphic

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