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title: Moving continents: from Pangaea to today — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Geography
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 43 «Moving continents: from Pangaea to today» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Moving continents: from Pangaea to today

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The 15 questions of lesson 43 «Moving continents: from Pangaea to today» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with their options, 82 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/t1/) — Your friend says: "The continents have always been where they are now, maps never change." Put her right. — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/t2/) — "if pangaea was still a thing could i walk from london to new york?" — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/t3/) — A cartoon shows dinosaurs watching humans build a city on Pangaea. What's wrong? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/t4/) — A geologist finds the same 270-million-year-old reptile fossil in Brazil and South Africa. What is the best explanation? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/t5/) — Why can't the jigsaw fit of South America and Africa be perfect along today's beaches? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/t6/) — What would happen to the Mediterranean if Africa kept pushing north for tens of millions of years? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/t7/) — India moves about 5 cm a year now. "hang on, how did it get from near Antarctica to Asia then?" — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/t8/) — Tom says: "Coal under Britain proves Britain used to be a jungle in the same place." What's the best correction? — right ✓ · ★★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/t9/) — A clever puzzle: the Atlantic opens a few cm a year and is about 5,000 km wide. Roughly how long did it take to open? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/t10/) — Mia thinks Pangaea was the only supercontinent ever. What's true? — wrong ✗ · ★★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/t11/) — "so in 250 million yrs it's all one big blob of land again, right, 100% sure?" — right ✓ · ★★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the supercontinent Pangaea? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/e2/) — Identify the evidence that is consistent with the hypothesis that the continents were formerly contiguous. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/e3/) — It is given that substantial deposits of coal are present beneath Great Britain. Identify the principal reason for their formation. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/43-moving-continents-from-pangaea-to-today/e4/) — Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the Atlantic Ocean. — wrong ✗ · exam

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