Pangaea Introduction

Pangaea Introduction

Feel free to take notes on a piece of paper while we go through slides.

Poll

Did you complete the reading assignment and questions from yesterday?

• Yes!

• No

Earth's Crust

• It is NOT a solid shell

• Broken into pieces called tectonic plates

• These plates move!

Earth's Layers

Think of the Earth like a jawbreaker. It is made of many different layers.

Tectonic plates move on top of the MANTLE.

Multiple Choice

The crust of the Earth is a solid piece.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What are the broken pieces of the crust called?

• Faults

• Tectonic Plates

• Boundaries

Multiple Choice

The plates move.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The Earth is made of

• Candy

• Solid Rock

• Layers

Multiple Choice

Plates move

• Slowly

• Quickly

• Never

Multiple Choice

Plates that are covered in water are called________

• plate boundaries

• oceanic plates

• fault lines

Multiple Choice

When plates move they can create mountains.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Volcanoes ARE NOT formed from plate movement.

• True

• False

Alfred Wegener

• Continental Drift

• First person to talk about plates moving in 1915

• There was once a giant super continent called PANGAEA