EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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Question
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Continents and fossils fitting together/matching-up like puzzle pieces
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glacier scars and evidence from temperature
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mountain ranges and coal deposits line up across continents
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Wegener used fossil evidence to support his continental drift hypothesis. The fossils of these organisms are found on lands that are now far apart. Grooves and rock deposits left by ancient glaciers are found today on different continents very close to the equator.
Detailed explanation-2: -Wegener supported his theory by demonstrating the biological and geological similarities between continents. South America and Africa contain fossils of animals found only on those two continents, with corresponding geographic ranges.
Detailed explanation-3: -He found research on identical fossils on the coasts of Africa and South America, something for which geologists, convinced that the world map was immutable, had offered a more implausible explanation: land bridges that had vanished after permitting animals and plants to travel from one continent to another.