Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics

By Ian Duff

The earth moves!

Our earth moves! We have many pieces of evidence for this some we can even feel; like earthquakes. So what is causes the movement? Magma! Deep in the Earth, molten rock churns as it heats and cools in convection currents. This moves the crustlike plates on top, and even creates and new and destroys old plates. *VIDEO TIME*

Multiple Choice

This evidence shows ancient animals lived on several continents, even though they are an ocean apart.

• Mountain Range Evidence

• Glacial Evidence

• Fossil Evidence

Multiple Choice

Similar patterns are found around the world in high peaks.

• Mountain Range Evidence

• Glacial Evidence

• Fossil Evidence

Multiple Choice

Marks left behind showing direction of ice movement

• Mountain Range Evidence

• Glacial Evidence

• Fossil Evidence

Alfred Wegener

German meteorologist who first proposed the theory of continental drift.

Multiple Choice

Meteorologist who proposed theory that continents move

• Alfred Wegener

• Albert Einstein

• John Lennon

Multiple Choice

Lines of similar age/type matching on different continents

• Age dated rock

• Seams

• Rock Strata

Multiple Choice

Mega continent made of combined continents

• Greenland

• Pangea

• Rhodesia

Multiple Select

Mark only those that are evidence for Plate Tectonics:

• Rock Strata

• Porosity

• Fossil Record

• Acceleration

• Continental Drift