Select all of the items that are considered evidence to support continental drift:

Question

Select all of the items that are considered evidence to support continental drift:

paleoclimate belts

glacial deposits

fossil records

ocean floor samples

oil reserves

mountain belts

Answer 1

You have to think of the time scale that continental drift occurs over, and the mechanisms through which it evolves, then determine which of those lines of evidence is appropriate for that time scale. You must also consider how the evidence could possible support the theory. Fossils are unique, diverse, localized, and identifiable. Mountain terrains are unique and identifiable and actually provide some direct evidence for uplift and subduction along continental margins. Oil is a byproduct of the thermal evolution of organic rich sediments and is not geographically unique. Glacial deposition and paleoclimate changes quite rapidly on a geological time scale and are not very spatially unique. Ocean floor samples are a commingling of continental sediments and pelagic ooze and don't provide any direct evidence of continental drift.

Fossil records and mountain belts would be the two strongest lines of evidence to support the theory.

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