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What are wegeners clues of the jigsaw puzzle?
fossil evidence, continents shapes, similar rock types
Early mapmakers thought continents might have moved based on their observations of?
The fit of the coastlines of different continents, the distribution of similar fossils across continents, and the presence of similar rock formations on different continents led early mapmakers to speculate that continents may have moved over time. This gave rise to the theory of continental drift, which was later developed into the theory of plate tectonics.
How do the location of mountains support wegeners idea about how mountains formed?
mountains usually occur in narrow bands along the edges of continents
How did wegner stummble upon the matching continents that formed pangaea?
Alfred Wegener was looking at maps once, (as he was a weatherman) and found the edges of each continents fit together like a puzzle. He researched it, and then came up with the theory of Continental Drift. The people did not accept his theory, and asked what made the continents move. He thought that that was not his problem, but the people of the world's problem.
Theory that continents were once connected?
A. The continents can support animal life
Wegeners hypothesis of continental drift was replaced in 1967 by which theory that supported his idea continents move?
plate tectonics
Why is ''cotinental drift'' an appropriate title for wegeners theory?
Because Continental drift is when the continents drift apart because they hate each other.
Why did other scientists not accept Alfred Wegeners theory?
why did other scientist not accpet Alfred Wegeners theory
Does fossils support wegeners theory?
Yes, because he found fossils from a fresh water lizard, in two different continents separated by salt water.
What was wegeners theory called?
I believe this is what its called "the Origin of Continents and Oceans" German: Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane Love youu xxx
Why was wegeners theory different?
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What was Alfred wegeners evidence?
fossils continents shapes climate :)
Which observation supported Wegeners theory of continental drift?
The entire east coast of South America clearly appears to fit snugly with Africa's west coast.
What were Charles Darwin's contributions to Wegeners theory of continental drift?
Most people actually state that Darwin beat Wegener to the theory of continental drift as he mentioned in most of his studies about the continents drifting apart and fitting together.
What evidence did Wegeners have to support his theory?
Fossils support his hypothesis.
Explain Wegener's theory of continental drift?
Wegeners theory was that the tectonic plates in the earth were moving and colliding with each other due to temperature changes and convection currents at the core of the earth. Due to these plates moving, he thought that continents were drifting apart from each other, he then looked at a map of the earth and concluded that certain continents such as Africa and South America looked as if they had been joined previously as they seemed to fit together like peices of a jigsaw puzzle.
What do geologists know today that would have convinced geologists of the early 1900s that Alfred Wegeners theory of contintental drift was in part correct?
They know that the continents drifted to their current location due to the rotation of the Earth.
