Question

You know that Alfred Wegener’s ideas were not immediately accepted. What evidence was found that convinced his contemporaries (people who lived at the same time he lived) to eventually begin to accept his theory of continental drift?

Answer 1

The apparent fit of the eastern coastline of South America and western coastline of Africa

Similarities of plants and animal fossils in South America and some parts of African continent which were separated by a vast ocean

Similarities in the sequence of rock layers of opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean