What is some evidence of continental drift?

What evidence did alfred wegener have of the continental drift, with the tectonic plates?

  • explain the theory and the evidence and include the tectonic plates plzz fankss :)

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    Try looking at your text book. Supplement it with the easily accessible Wikipedia pages on Alfred Wegener and continental drift. Read other sources too, should you wish, but don't expect other people to write your essay for you.

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1:the shapes of the contenints match 2:The land forms match(Moutains in South america match up with ones in south africa 3:Fossil evidence 4:Climate evidence(tropical plants have been found in antartica) 5:The contents are like a jigsaw puzzle. They used to be a super contenint called pangea 6:Sea floor spreading 7: Mid ocean ridges 8:Today, contenints still move at an average of 2 cm. a year

Michael

some of the continents like Africa and Madagasca seem to fit together

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The tectonic plates rest on the asthenosphere and layer of soft and hot rock. The causes of Plate movements is that the plates rest on the asthenosphere and the layer of soft or hot rock. The plates tectonics comes from the study of magnetization of minerals.

stella

The evidence he had included: 1. matching coastlines seperated by ocean 2. matching mountain trends in landmasses separated by thousands kilometers of ocean 3. identical fossils found on these seperated landmasses Hope this was of some help!!

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