EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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South America and Africa have completely different rock layers.
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A hurricane hits the Gulf of Mexico at the beginning of June.
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Similar fossils are found on the coasts of South America and Africa.
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North America and South America are connected by land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Now it says that the landmasses drifted over the ocean, hence creating several continents and oceans. Okay, so the correct answer for this is option C. Which says that similar fossils they are found on the coast of South America and africa.
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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The matching of continents, rocks of the same age across oceans, tillite, placer deposits, and fossil distribution are all Evidence of Continental Drift Theory.
Detailed explanation-4: -The answer is option C, which says that similar fossils are found on the coast of South America and Africa. The theory of Pan JIA states that South America and Africa used to be together, but due to shifting tectonic plates the continents broke apart.
Detailed explanation-5: -Rocks found in parts of South America, Africa, India, and Australia all show evidence of glaciers at the end of the Paleozoic Era. For these places to have glaciers, they had to be closer to the South Pole. The rocks also show the direction in which the glaciers traveled.