SCIENCE
EARTH SCIENCE
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Question
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the continents seem to fit together like pieces of a puzzle
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there are similar fossils on different continents
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mountain ranges in South America and Africa line up
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the North Pole and Antarctica are covered with ice
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Detailed explanation-1: -The main reason that Wegener’s hypothesis was not accepted was because he suggested no mechanism for moving the continents. He thought the force of Earth’s spin was sufficient to cause continents to move, but geologists knew that rocks are too strong for this to be true.
Detailed explanation-2: -One type of evidence that strongly supported the Theory of Continental Drift is the fossil record. Scientists have found fossils of similar types of plants and animals in rocks of similar age. These rocks were on the shores of different continents.
Detailed explanation-3: -They based their idea of continental drift on several lines of evidence: fit of the continents, paleoclimate indicators, truncated geologic features, and fossils.