Sci questions:

1. What is the sea that separates Laurasia and Gondwanaland? Tethys Sea
2. Fossilized leaves of an extinct plant, it is found in a 250-million-year old rock. Glossopteris
3. A land reptile found in South America and Africa. Cynognathus
4. Alfred Wegener named his single supercontinent ____________, which means "all Earth" in
ancient Greek. Pangaea
5. This is a Greek word for “All Sea”, this is a vast global ocean that surrounded the supercontinent
Pangaea. Panthalassa
6. What was Wegener’s continental drift idea? The continents have moved slowly apart to their
current locations.
7. True or False. The continents including the continental margins can be pieced together to form a
single whole continent. True
8. The remains or traces of ancient life are called ____. Fossils
9. What are the three types of Evidence that supports Alfred Wegener's Theory? Fossils, Land
Forms, Climate
10. What two specific continents fit together most noticeably? South America & Africa
11. Mesosaurus fossils have been found on what two continents? South America & Africa
12. Coal found in colder climates indicate that the land used to be in a warmer climate. True
13. Glossopteris grew in warm, swampy areas proving Antarctica used to have a ___ climate.
Tropical/warm and wet
14. These were formed from the compaction and decomposition of swamp plants that lived million
years ago. Coal beds
15. He was a Brabantian cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer. He was the one who
proposed the continental drift theory first in 1596. Abraham Ortelius
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