Earthquakes and Coninental Drift

Alfred Wegener believed landmasses of Earth once fit together to form single landmass called "Pangaea"; landmasses "drifted" to where they are today; theory disregarded due to lack of evidence

• Continental Drift Theory

• Plate tectonics

• Fossil evidence

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying mantle.

• Alfred Wegener

• Plate tectonics

• Continental Drift Theory

• Fossil Evidence

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Scratches and gouges from glaciers lined up on boundaries of continents; evidence that the Tropics were once covered in glaciers

• Fossil Evidence

• Glacial Evidence for Continental Drift

• Rock Layer Evidence

• Pangea

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

fossils of some organisms were found on two different continents with different environments.

• Fossil Evidence

• Glacial Evidence for Continental Drift

• Continental Fit Evidence

• Rock Layer Evidence

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

term for the super continent which contained all the plates together

• Fossil Layer Evidence

• Laurasia

• Gondwandaland

• Pangea

these were plants that resembled ferns found on different continents. They lived about 250 million years ago. there seeds have traveled across the ocean.

• Glossopteris fossils

• Cynognathus

• Lystrosaurus

• Mesosaurus fossils

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The continents, particularly South America and Africa, fit together like puzzle pieces

• Fault lines

• Glacier Evidence

• Landform and Rock Layer Evidence

• Continental Fit Evidence

One of the principal land masses of the earth, usually regarded as including Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.

• Landform and Rock Layer Evidence

• Gondwanaland

• Continents

• Laurasia

The continents of Africa, South America, India, Australia, and Antarctica when all the continents were a single landmass.

• Gondwanaland

• Laurasia

• Pangea

• Hawaii

North America, Europe, and Asia.Northern part of Pangea

• Gondwanaland

• Laurasia

• Eurasia

• Hawaii

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2