1001 question 7

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Which of the following statements concerning Wegener’s Continental Drift theory, or the evidence he had for his theory, is FALSE? Wegener not only used geologic evidence to support his idea but also relied on the distributions of living and fossil animals and plants. Wegener used the trends of now-eroded ancient mountain belts that match up if the continents are put together to help support his idea. Although Wegener and his supporters compiled lots of evidence that the continents had moved, he was not the first to suggest that idea. Wegener was the first to recognize and prove that convection cells in the Earth’s mantle caused continents to move across the Earth.

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1001 question 7

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