{"id":1848,"date":"2016-05-23T20:18:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T20:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geologyxwaymakerxmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1848"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:48:53","slug":"outcome-continental-drift","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/chapter\/outcome-continental-drift\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: Continental Drift","rendered":"Outcome: Continental Drift"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Describe Continental Drift including supporting evidence.<\/h2>\r\nThe continental drift hypothesis was developed in the early part of the twentieth\u00a0century, mostly by Alfred Wegener. Wegener said that continents move around on Earth\u2019s surface and that they were once joined together as a single supercontinent. While Wegener was alive, scientists did not believe that the continents could move.\r\n\r\nIn this outcome, we will discuss the basics of the hypothesis, as well as the contributions of Alfred Wegener.\r\n<h2>What You\u2019ll Learn to Do<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Identify key components and evidence of Continental Drift.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Know the shortcomings of Continental Drift.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>Learning Activities<\/h3>\r\nThe learning activities for this section include the following:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Reading: Continental Drift<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Reading: Wegener and the Continental Drift Hypothesis<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Self Check:\u00a0Continental Drift<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<h2>Describe Continental Drift including supporting evidence.<\/h2>\n<p>The continental drift hypothesis was developed in the early part of the twentieth\u00a0century, mostly by Alfred Wegener. Wegener said that continents move around on Earth\u2019s surface and that they were once joined together as a single supercontinent. While Wegener was alive, scientists did not believe that the continents could move.<\/p>\n<p>In this outcome, we will discuss the basics of the hypothesis, as well as the contributions of Alfred Wegener.<\/p>\n<h2>What You\u2019ll Learn to Do<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify key components and evidence of Continental Drift.<\/li>\n<li>Know the shortcomings of Continental Drift.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Learning Activities<\/h3>\n<p>The learning activities for this section include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading: Continental Drift<\/li>\n<li>Reading: Wegener and the Continental Drift Hypothesis<\/li>\n<li>Self Check:\u00a0Continental Drift<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1848\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Kimberly Schulte and Lumen Learning. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>6.2: Continental Drift. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: CK-12. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ck12.org\/book\/CK-12-Earth-Science-For-High-School\/section\/6.2\/\">http:\/\/www.ck12.org\/book\/CK-12-Earth-Science-For-High-School\/section\/6.2\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC: Attribution-NonCommercial<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"6.2: Continental Drift\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"CK-12\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.ck12.org\/book\/CK-12-Earth-Science-For-High-School\/section\/6.2\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"Kimberly Schulte and Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"b5b291f2-c4e7-4004-b84f-3a51a1bb489f","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1848","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":26,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1848\/revisions\/2857"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/26"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1848\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}