EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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Question
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Fossils of the same organisms are found on different continents.
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Similar glacial sediments are found in different parts of the world.
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The shapes of the continents fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
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Climates at different latitudes are similar to one another.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alfred Wegener, in the first three decades of this century, and DuToit in the 1920s and 1930s gathered evidence that the continents had moved. They based their idea of continental drift on several lines of evidence: fit of the continents, paleoclimate indicators, truncated geologic features, and fossils.
Detailed explanation-2: -The four pieces of evidence for the continental drift include continents fitting together like a puzzle, scattering ancient fossils, rocks, mountain ranges, and the old climatic zones’ locations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis? fossil.
Detailed explanation-4: -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. This suggests that the continents were once joined.