Question

In the early 1900s Alfred Wegener noticed that some of earths continets looked like they might fit together like a jigsaw puzzle he also observed that the continets that looked like they fit together had similar plants animals and rock formations from this evidence Wegener reasoned that earths continents were all once a part of one big supercontinent what type of scientific thinking did wegener employ to develop this theory theory

A. inductive reasoning
B. deductive reasoning
C. skeptical reasoning
D. subjective reasoning

Answer 1

Its A. inductive Reasoning. He had no idea that it was true, but he assumed

Answer 2

B. Deductive reasoning