Moving Continents

The presence of the same __________ on several continents supports the hypothesis of continental drift.

Some early mapmakers thought that the coastline of South America matched the coastline of Asia.

Scientists at the time rejected Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift because he could not explain how or why Earth's continents move.

A lack of explanation for continental drift prevented many scientists from accepting that a single supercontinent called ________ once existed.

Matching ____________ on different continents are evidence for continental drift.

___________ is a fossil fern that helped support Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift.

Wegener believed that the continents were assembles as part of a supercontinent about ________ years ago.

The _____________ hypothesis suggested that continents are in constant motion on the surface of Earth.

All the continents once formed a supercontinent.

India has always been north of the equator.