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Who, in 1596, first proposed that the Americas, Europe and Africa were once joined?Read the answer and worked solution →Wegener named the single supercontinent:Read the answer and worked solution →Wegener's mega-ocean, meaning all water, was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Pangaea began to split about how many million years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →Pangaea first broke into Gondwanaland and which northern mass?Read the answer and worked solution →Bullard's 1964 computer fit of the Atlantic margins was tried at which depth line?Read the answer and worked solution →The gold placer deposits of the Ghana coast are believed to come from the:Read the answer and worked solution →Mesosaurus fossils are found only in South Africa and which other country?Read the answer and worked solution →Wegener's polar-fleeing force relates to the:Read the answer and worked solution →Who in the 1930s suggested convection currents operating in the mantle?Read the answer and worked solution →Rocks of the oceanic crust are nowhere older than:Read the answer and worked solution →Hess proposed the sea floor spreading hypothesis in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Plate Tectonics was put forward in 1967 by McKenzie, Parker and independently by:Read the answer and worked solution →Plate tectonics divides the lithosphere into how many major plates?Read the answer and worked solution →The Nazca plate lies between the Pacific plate and:Read the answer and worked solution →The best-known example of a divergent boundary is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The place where one plate sinks under another is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Which ridge has the slowest plate movement, under 2.5 cm a year?Read the answer and worked solution →The Tethys Sea separated India from Asia until about:Read the answer and worked solution →India collided with Asia about how many million years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →The outpouring of Deccan Trap lava began around:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the minor platesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the drift evidenceRead the answer and worked solution →Run the theory datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the boundary wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Wegener or plate tectonicsRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the boundariesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Plate tectonics bingoRead the answer and worked solution →About 98 per cent of the earth's crust is made up of how many elements?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Who, in 1596, first proposed that the Americas, Europe and Africa were once joined?

  1. Antonio Pellegrini
  2. Abraham Ortelius
  3. Alfred Wegener
  4. Arthur Holmes
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Correct answer: B. Abraham Ortelius

1. He was a Dutch map maker. 2. Ortelius proposed it in 1596. 3. Pellegrini later drew the three continents together. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 4, Distribution of Oceans and Continents._

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Wegener named the single supercontinent:

  1. Pangaea
  2. Laurasia
  3. Gondwana
  4. Tethys
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Correct answer: A. Pangaea

1. The name means all earth. 2. The supercontinent was Pangaea. 3. A mega-ocean surrounded it. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 4, Distribution of Oceans and Continents._

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Wegener's mega-ocean, meaning all water, was called:

  1. Atlantic Sea
  2. Panthalassa
  3. Tethys Sea
  4. Pacific Sea
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Correct answer: B. Panthalassa

1. It surrounded Pangaea. 2. The ocean was Panthalassa. 3. Pangaea split about 200 million years ago. _Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 4, Distribution of Oceans and Continents._

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