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serike

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In the 1950s a plot of the position of the magnetic north pole through time revealed that
 
  A) either the magnetic poles had migrated through time or the continents had moved.
  B) polar magnetization varied from pole to pole.
  C) over the past 500 million years the geographic poles changed position at least once or twice.
  D) all of the above.

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What are glacial striations, and how did Wegener use them to support his hypothesis of continental drift?
 
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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Glacial striations are gouges or grooves that scratch the ground surface as a glacier moves over the land surface. They reveal the direction of ice flow. Wegener used striations on several different continents to show that at one time the continents had been joined together.



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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