Which is a suitable group of landmasses linked with Gondwanaland?
Gondwanaland is considered to include many southern continents and India. Exam tip: identify the southern group.
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Gondwanaland is considered to include many southern continents and India. Exam tip: identify the southern group.
View question detailsLaurasia was the northern supercontinent including North America and Eurasia. Exam tip: link Laurasia with the northern part.
View question detailsSimilar glacial deposits indicate an old connected landmass like Gondwanaland. Exam tip: connect them with climatic evidence.
View question detailsFossils are biological evidence while rock similarity is geological evidence. Exam tip: distinguish the nature of evidences.
View question detailsOld glacial and coal evidence show past climatic positions of landmasses. Exam tip: call it paleoclimatic evidence.
View question detailsCoastline fossil rock and climatic evidences together strengthen the theory. Exam tip: understand evidences as a group.
View question detailsPangaea was a huge joined landmass and Panthalassa a huge ocean. Exam tip: remember the pair of these terms.
View question detailsContinental drift is a process over long geological time. Exam tip: do not treat it as a sudden event.
View question detailsWegener presented ideas on the origin of continents and oceans. Exam tip: connect his work with this subject.
View question detailsThe separation of Africa and South America is linked with widening of the Atlantic region. Exam tip: study it with coastline fit.
View question detailsSimilar fossils indicate the possibility of old connection between separate continents. Exam tip: link fossil evidence with connection.
View question detailsBoth evidences strengthen old continental relation in different ways. Exam tip: identify the purpose of evidences.
View question detailsMesosaurus was a freshwater reptile that could not have crossed the wide Atlantic Ocean. Its fossils occurring in both South America and Africa are therefore best explained if these continents were formerly connected and later drifted apart. Glossopteris is a plant fossil, Panthalassa was an ocean, and tillite is glacial sediment, so the other choices are unsuitable.
View question detailsThe main weakness of Wegener's theory was the unclear driving force. Exam tip: remember it as criticism.
View question detailsPangaea represents the old joined form of all land. Exam tip: its meaning helps understand the theory.
View question detailsLaurasia was the northern part and Gondwanaland the southern part. Exam tip: identify them by direction.
View question detailsClimatic evidence shows landmasses may have been in other climatic zones earlier. Exam tip: link latitude and climate.
View question detailsMain evidences are coastline fit fossils rock similarity and glacial clues. Exam tip: remember them in separate categories.
View question detailsThis theory explains long-term changes of Earth's surface. Exam tip: connect it with the concept of dynamic Earth.
View question detailsCoal and glacial deposits indicate old climatic environments. Exam tip: place them as paleoclimatic evidence.
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