Which of the following statements are inaccurate or incorrect evidence of continental drift? Select two.

Question

A.
Continents move several meters every year.
B.
Fossils on continents separated by an ocean are found to be identical species.
C.
Continents appear to fit together like pieces of a puzzle.
D.
Some landforms and deposits appear to be continuous on opposite sides of an ocean.
E.
Earth’s magnetic poles flip every few months.

Answer 1

The two statements that are inaccurate or incorrect evidence of continental drift are:

A. Continents move several meters every year.
(Evidence suggests that continents move a few centimeters per year, not several meters.)

E. Earth’s magnetic poles flip every few months.
(This statement is incorrect; while the Earth's magnetic poles do flip, it occurs on a much longer geological timescale, averaging every hundreds of thousands to millions of years, not every few months.)

The other statements (B, C, and D) support the theory of continental drift.