Who was Alfred Wegener?
A) the Flemish cartographer who wrote Thesaurus Geographicus
B) the first explorer to make the journey to the New World in 1492
C) the French geographer who found coal in North America and Europe
D) the first geologist to suggest that the Earth's internal heat drives vast, circular currents in the mantle that move lithospheric plates
E) the first geologist to formulate a global explanation of how the continents assumed their present locations and shapes
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Q1: What is the name of the landmass
Q3: How does continental rifting work?
A) Continents move
Q4: Pangea is the name of the giant
Q5: Geologists immediately accepted the theory of continental
Q6: What is the mechanism proposed by Arthur
Q7: Which of the following describes paleomagnetism?
A) an
Q8: Magnetic reversals in the Earth's crust were
Q9: How fast do tectonic plates move?
A) several
Q10: What is the lithosphere?
A) earth's oceanic and
Q11: Which of the following locations is the
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