EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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Question
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Matching rock type and rock formations can show the way the continents were once attached.
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Glacial evidence has been found in areas where glaciers could exist if the continents were in their current location.
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Ancient life forms preserved as fossils can tell us what organisms existed and were they were. Matching the fossils can show that land masses were once connected.
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All of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Evidence from fossils, glaciers, and complementary coastlines helps reveal how the plates once fit together. Fossils tell us when and where plants and animals once existed. Some life “rode” on diverging plates, became isolated, and evolved into new species.
Detailed explanation-2: -Magma generation, igneous intrusions, metamorphism, volcanic action, earthquakes, faulting, and folding are usually the result of plate tectonic activity.
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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The evidence for continental drift included the fit of the continents; the distribution of ancient fossils, rocks, and mountain ranges; and the locations of ancient climatic zones.
Detailed explanation-5: -Fossil Evidence 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.