1. Continental
Drift

6. Answer the following:
Scientists have discovered similarities in present-day organisms and in fossils between the Americas and Antarctica. What does this suggest about the Theory of Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics?
Examine the direction of the plates surrounding Chile; predict what is happening there.
Explain whether North Carolina is on a plate boundary or not. Explain.
Europe is a meter farther away from North America now than just fifty years ago. How can this be explain?
What evidence is there that the present-day continents were once a single land mass?
Why do the continental shapes no longer fit perfectly together?
How does the drifting of continents relate to the diversity of organisms around the world?