EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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Question
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Which of the following can be explained in part by the concept of continental drift?
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Why mountain formations on different continents can be pieced together and line up.
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Why sea turtles travel great distances to lay eggs.
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Why fossils of a particular type of reptile are found only on one continent.
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Why there are several species of penguins living in Antarctica.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The continental drift hypothesis (introduced by Alfred Wegener in 1912) states that at one point in time, all of the continents were joined together as one large mass of land, then the land spread apart and drifted into their current positions.
Detailed explanation-2: -Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth’s land masses are in constant motion. The realization that Earth’s land masses move was first proposed by Alfred Wegener, which he called continental drift.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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