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Continental Drift Theory and its evidence

In Class 11 Geography, this topic explains the Continental Drift Theory within the chapter “Distribution of Oceans and Continents.” Students learn Alfred Wegener’s idea that the continents were once joined as Pangaea and gradually moved apart. They examine evidence such as the matching shapes of coastlines, similar fossils, continuous rock formations, mountain belts, and past glacial deposits found on continents now far apart. The topic also introduces the theory’s limitations and its importance in the later development of plate tectonics.

Hard · Level 4 · 25 questions

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  1. Mineral evidence
  2. Fossil evidence
  3. Glacial evidence
  4. Coastal erosion evidence
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  1. Similar fossils should be understood with location and possible environment
  2. Fossils should always be treated as modern cities
  3. All fossils should be called tidal force
  4. Fossils should be treated as coastline colour
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  1. Coastline fit alone is complete and final proof
  2. Coastline fit is useful visual evidence
  3. Fossils indicate old connection
  4. Rock similarity is geological evidence
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  1. It gave important comparative evidence but had weak mechanism of movement
  2. It was completely without evidence
  3. It explained only agriculture
  4. It proved Earth completely fixed
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  1. Testing a hypothesis through different sources
  2. Making only guesses
  3. Depending on one map only
  4. Treating present weather as history
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  1. Laurasia was the northern landmass, whereas Gondwanaland was the southern landmass
  2. Laurasia and Gondwanaland were both southern landmasses
  3. Laurasia was the southern landmass, whereas Gondwanaland was the northern landmass
  4. Laurasia and Gondwanaland were both northern landmasses
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  1. As slow long term geological change
  2. As one day weather event
  3. As change in political boundary
  4. Only as river course change
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  1. Tillite provides evidence of ancient glacial deposits
  2. Mesosaurus fossils indicate a former land connection between South America and Africa
  3. Similarity between placer gold deposits in Ghana and source rocks in Brazil indicates former proximity
  4. The Tethys Sea provides evidence for the distribution of Glossopteris plant fossils
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  1. Old connection and later separation of Africa and South America
  2. Drying of the Atlantic in one day
  3. Europe being Gondwanaland
  4. Panthalassa being a fossil
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  1. The hypothesis of joined landmass was built from different evidences
  2. Evidences were later fully removed
  3. The theory was based only on myth
  4. Evidences were taken only from census
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  1. Because old positions and climates of landmasses could be different
  2. Because maps are not used
  3. Because Earth has no rocks
  4. Because fossils are always fake
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  1. Pangaea was a joined landmass and Tethys was the sea between its divided parts
  2. Pangaea was fossil of Tethys
  3. Tethys surrounded Pangaea from all sides
  4. Both are modern mountains
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  1. Mesosaurus and Glossopteris
  2. Rock similarity and mountain continuity
  3. Coastline fit and placer gold
  4. Tillite and glacial striation
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  1. It should be read with other evidences because climate clues alone do not give full mechanical explanation
  2. It always shows present weather
  3. It is unrelated to continents
  4. It is only a political fact
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  1. It is wrong because plate tectonics better explained the mechanism and gave new basis to many evidences
  2. It is correct because no evidence remained
  3. It is correct because continents proved fixed
  4. It is correct because Pangaea was a modern city
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  1. Main criticism was on mechanism because evidences existed
  2. Main criticism was that there were no coastlines
  3. Main criticism was that Pangaea was an ocean
  4. Main criticism was absence of fossils
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  1. Mesosaurus and tillite
  2. Panthalassa and Laurasia
  3. Tethys and tidal force
  4. Pangaea and pole fleeing
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  1. Entire Earth history was proved only by coastline fit
  2. Coastline fit may indicate old connection
  3. Fossil similarity may indicate old contact
  4. Rock similarity may show geological relation
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  1. Because it treated continents as movable rather than fixed
  2. Because it denied oceans on Earth
  3. Because it called rocks fake
  4. Because it explained only present weather
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  1. Visual geological and biological evidences support old connection
  2. Only present climate is proved
  3. Continents formed in one day
  4. Panthalassa was a fossil
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  1. It started debate on continental mobility before plate tectonics
  2. It gave complete calculation of modern plates
  3. It fixed the age of all mountains
  4. It declared Panthalassa a country
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  1. As an explanatory concept
  2. As fossil evidence
  3. As glacial deposit
  4. As tidal force
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  1. Wegener's evidences show old connection and plate tectonics gives mechanism of movement
  2. Wegener's evidences explain only politics
  3. Plate tectonics rejects fossils
  4. In modern explanation continents are fixed
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  1. It was an important evidence based hypothesis whose mechanical gap was later filled by plate tectonics
  2. It was an imagination without evidence
  3. It was only a meteorology theory
  4. It was a theory stating continents are fixed
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  1. Wegener gave important evidence but the mechanism of movement was later better explained by plate tectonics
  2. Wegener gave no evidence
  3. Wegener called continents always fixed
  4. Wegener explained only daily weather

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