Continental Drift BREAKOUT

Continental DriftBreakout

Most scientist think that millions of years ago Earth was very different from the way it is today. Take a look. Your mission is to complete all tasks.

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01 Quiz

Introduction

02 Find!

Objectives

Collect all the numbers by completing each of the challenges, and enter them in order in the final section to finish the game.

04 Follow the series

03 Correct image

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In what year was the theory of Continental Drift discovered?

1811

2011

1911

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Explanation:In 1911 a young german Meteorlogist attempted to solve the jigsaw puzzle of the continents, hypothesizing that Earth's continents had moved!

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Who proposed the concept of Continental Drift?

Alfred Hess

Harry Hess

Alfred Wegener

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Explanation:Alfred Wegener (Vay Guh Nur) 32-year-old (1st November 1880 – November 1930) German meteorologist, launched his theory of continental drift in a book called The Origin of Continents and Oceans in 1915.

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QUESTION 3/5

According to his theory the Earth's landmass was one supercontinent called

Pangaea (pan jee ah)

Tethys

Laurasia (law rah sha)

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Explanation:Pangea means "All lands" existed about 250 million years ago and was surrounded bya super-ocean called Panthalasia.

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QUESTION 4/5

What two evidence did Wegener use to support is hypothesis?

Fossils on the continents and Continental coast fit like a jigsaw puzzle

The way the clouds moved and the animals on various continents.

Volcanoes and Earthquakes

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Explanation: Fossils of animals and plants on opposite sides of continent could not have evolved or crossed the Indian oceans due to their size. The shape of the coastline of Africa and South America can be fitted together

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QUESTION 5/5

Why did most scientists reject Wegener's hypothesis of Continental Drift?

No mechanism to explain how the continents moved through the ocean.

He was a Meteorologist and knew nothing about Geology.

It contradiced thier ideas of how mountains are formed.

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Explanation:Wegener couls not provide a satisfactory explanation for the force that pushes or pulls the continents.

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Find all the videos, watch, then click start to uncover your next code. From among all the statements you discover,click only on the correct ones

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CLICK ONLY ON THE CORRECT STATEMENT: "Pangaea separated into two landmasses- Laurasia and Gondwanaland" 1/3

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CLICK ONLY ON THE CORRECT STATEMENT: "Laurasia is found in the North consists of present day; North America. Europe and Asia"2/3

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CLICK ONLY ON THE CORRECT STATEMENT: "Gondwanaland broke up into mainly Southern continents including India." 3/3

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Choose the image that describes the Statement of Continental Drift described by Wegener's Jigsaw evidence.

CHOOSE THE IMAGE THAT DESCRIBES THE Age OF the rock and Geological structure in the evidence of CONTINENTAL DRIFT DESCRIBED BY WEGENER

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CHOOSE THE IMAGE THAT DESCRIBES THE Distribution of Fossils across the continents IN THE EVIDENCE OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT DESCRIBED BY WEGENER

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CHOOSE THE IMAGE THAT DESCRIBES THE Glaciers found close to the equator IN THE EVIDENCE OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT DESCRIBED BY WEGENER

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CHOOSE THE IMAGE THAT DESCRIBES The distribution of tropical climate IN THE EVIDENCE OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT DESCRIBED BY WEGENER

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