Q 01/05
A) One world
B) Old land
C) Great mother
D) All earth
Answer · why
It combines pan, 'all, entire', with Gaia, the Earth or Mother Earth.
Q 02/05
A) Eduard Suess
B) Alfred Wegener
C) Arthur Holmes
D) Harry Hess
Answer · why
He was primarily a meteorologist and polar researcher; mainstream geology did not accept his idea until the 1960s.
Q 03/05
A) The Face of the Earth
B) The Origin of Continents and Oceans
C) Our Wandering Continents
D) Principles of Physical Geology
Answer · why
In it he called the single landmass the Urkontinent; the name Pangaea appears just once in the 1920 edition.
Q 04/05
A) Carboniferous
B) Devonian
C) Cretaceous
D) Cambrian
Answer · why
That was about 335 million years ago; it began to break apart around 200 million years ago at the end of the Triassic.
Q 05/05
A) T
B) C
C) O
D) S
Answer · why
The Tethys Ocean sat inside the curve, and a single vast superocean surrounded the rest.
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