Plate Motion Chapter 3

Question or Hint Answer or Word

What tool do scientists use today to measure the current rate and direction of plate motion? GPS (wrong answers: Barometer, Telescope, String-And-Can)
What evidence did Alfred Wegener use for continental drift? Fossil evidence from different continents (wrong answers: Satellite Images, Ocean Temperature Readings, Magnetomoter Data)
What is the main reason that humands cannot feel plate motion directly? The plates move to slowly for humans to notice. (wrong answers: The plates don’t move under land, The plates move in circles, The plates only move during the night)
The Mesosaurus fossils found in both South America and Africa are evidence that: Those continents were once joined together (wrong answers: The fossils drifted through ocean currents, Mesosaurus evolved twice independently, The species could swim across the Atlantic)
What is Gondwanaland? An ancient supercontinent made of several connected landmasses (wrong answers: A type of tectonic plate boundary, A large ocean basin, A modern continent)
What does GPS data show about plate motion? (wrong answers: Plates stop moving during earthquakes, Plates move slowly and continuously all the time, Plates move only when volcanoes erupt, Plates have stopped moving in modern times)
When reconstructing Gondwanaland, what kind of evidence helps scientists fit continents together? Fossil locations and rock patterns (wrong answers: Air pressure readings, Rainfall data, Soil samples)