Many early mapmakers thought Earth’s continents had moved based on: A. plate boundary locations
B. fossil evidence
C. matching coastlines
D. climatic data
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Many early mapmakers thought Earth’s continents had moved based on: A. plate boundary locations
B. fossil evidence
C. matching coastlines
D. climatic data
The correct answer is C. matching coastlines.
Many early mapmakers noticed that the coastlines of continents, especially South America and Africa, seemed to fit together like pieces of a puzzle. This observation led them to theorize that the continents may have once been joined together and have since drifted apart. While other evidence such as fossil data and climatic changes also support continental drift, the visual matching of coastlines was a primary observation that sparked interest in this idea.
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