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Geography

Continental Drift Theory and its evidence

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Expert · Level 30 · mountain belts,structural evidence,geology
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  1. Biological evidence
  2. Structural geological evidence
  3. Political evidence
  4. Atmospheric evidence
Expert · Level 30 · multidisciplinary evidence,geology,fossils,climate
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  1. Because evidences from different fields strengthen the same conclusion
  2. Because it is only a subject of history
  3. Because geography is not needed in it
  4. Because all evidences are of the same type
Expert · Level 30 · controversy,fixed continents,mechanism
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  1. Because it challenged fixed continents and the mechanism was unclear
  2. Because it gave no new idea
  3. Because it called Earth flat
  4. Because it denied oceans
Expert · Level 30 · weaknesses,driving force,ocean floor
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  1. Insufficient driving force and problem of movement through oceanic floor
  2. Complete absence of fossils and absence of Pangaea
  3. Absence of coastal fit and absence of rock evidence
  4. Absence of climatic evidence and absence of tillite
Expert · Level 30 · palaeoclimate,ancient climate,tillite
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  1. Information of present weather
  2. Evidence related to ancient climate
  3. Political weather report
  4. Marine traffic information
Expert · Level 30 · carboniferous glaciation,gondwana,palaeoclimate
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  1. They show similar ancient cold conditions on now separated lands
  2. They increase modern heat
  3. They separate rivers from sea
  4. They only build cities
Expert · Level 30 · coastal fit,expert answer,multiple evidence
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  1. Because coastal evidence should be supported by rock fossil and climate evidences
  2. Because coastal fit has no use
  3. Because maps are prohibited in geography
  4. Because coasts are never visible
Expert · Level 30 · present oceans,continental separation,atlantic
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  1. Some oceanic gaps developed due to separation of continents
  2. All oceans dried in one day
  3. Oceans formed only from clouds
  4. Oceans are permanently mountains
Expert · Level 30 · africa,south america,coastal fit
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  1. They may once have been close or connected
  2. They are currently the same continent
  3. They have no ocean
  4. They are only icebergs
Expert · Level 30 · chronology,original evidence,later evidence
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  1. So that Wegener's original evidences and later evidences are distinguished
  2. So that the question becomes short
  3. So that options become fewer
  4. So that oceans disappear
Expert · Level 30 · wegener contribution,dynamic earth,mobile continents
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  1. Concept of dynamic Earth and mobile continents
  2. Final proof of fixed Earth
  3. Creation of modern weather apps
  4. River cleaning plan
Expert · Level 30 · gondwanaland,southern continents,fragments
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  1. They are all modern federations
  2. They are considered fragments of the old southern supercontinent
  3. They are the same island today
  4. They are all at the North Pole
Expert · Level 30 · exam presentation,evidence sequence,continental drift
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  1. Ordered mention of coastal fit rock similarity fossil distribution and glacial evidence
  2. Only the word Pangaea
  3. Only Wegener's name
  4. Only one map
Expert · Level 30 · rejection,legacy,continental drift
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  1. Because many of his evidences later proved important in the right direction
  2. Because he gave no idea
  3. Because he called continents fixed
  4. Because he called Panthalassa a country
Expert · Level 30 · tethys shrinkage,mountain building,himalaya
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  1. River bend
  2. Mountain building
  3. Urbanization
  4. Deforestation
Expert · Level 30 · fossil distribution,rock evidence,glacial evidence
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  1. Similar rock structure and glacial evidence in the same region
  2. Modern name of a river
  3. Population of a city
  4. Daily weather temperature
Expert · Level 30 · westward drift,tidal force,wegener
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  1. Tidal force
  2. Glacial force
  3. Vegetation force
  4. Alluvial force
Expert · Level 30 · equatorward movement,pole fleeing force,earth rotation
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  1. Volcanic ash force
  2. Pole-fleeing force
  3. Sea wave force
  4. River deposit force
Expert · Level 30 · expert criticism,diverse evidence,physical mechanism
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  1. The theory had diverse evidences but lacked an adequate physical mechanism
  2. The theory had no evidence
  3. The theory was based only on agriculture
  4. The theory did not mention Pangaea
Expert · Level 30 · mature understanding,wegener,earth science
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  1. It was an evidence-based idea with a flawed mechanism that guided Earth science
  2. It was a superstition without evidence
  3. It was only naming of oceans
  4. It was modern satellite measurement