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Mo11-L3: Lesson Review Quiz (True or False)
Direction: On the line before each statement, write T if the statement is true or F if the statement is
false.
1. Wegener proposed the continental drift hypothesis suggesting that continents
are in constant motion on the surface of the Earth.
2. Glossopteris was a supercontinent consisting of Earth’s present-day continents.
3. One of Alfred Wegener’s pieces of evidence for continental drift was data from the seaf oor.
4. Wegener used fossil ferns to suggest that a supercontinent existed about 250 million years
ago.
5. Glacial grooves in rocks in Africa suggest that this continent was once located in a much
colder place.
6. Rocks with a similar makeup and age in South America and Africa supported Wegener’s
idea of moving continents.
7. Coal beds in Antarctica suggest that this continent once had a warm climate.
8. Wegener’s hypothesis of moving continents was not accepted by many because he did not
have much data to support it.
9. The puzzlelike f t of continental coastlines was one piece of evidence Wegener used to
suggest that the continents were once joined.
Mo11-L3: Lesson Review Quiz (Short Answer)
Direction: Respond to each statement on the lines provided
10. State Alfred Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift.
11. Explain how Wegener used the shapes of continents to support his hypothesis of continental drift.
12. Explain how Glossopteris fossils provide evidence of continental drift.
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