Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

What is Pangaea?

• Ancient fossil discovered in Australia

• A German scientist who theorized about plate movement

• The name of the supercontinent 250 million years ago

• A Greek goddess

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What type of evidence was used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis? (Select 3)

• evidence from landforms / geology

• evidence from fossils

• evidence from human remains

• evidence from climate

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

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What is this a picture of?

• plate tectonics
• continental drift
• pangea
• glacier scaring

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Why didn't people believe Wegener? (mark 2)

• He couldn't explain how the continents were moving

• He didn't have enough evidence

• The rock clues didn't match up

• He was a meteorologist

This picture is an example of which type of evidence?

• matching fossil

• matching land formation

• climate change

• memorial movement

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Glacial grooves are an example of which type of clue?

• Climate

• Rock

• Fossil

• Life

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Why do glacial striations found in India help to prove Wegener's theory that the continents have moved? (mark 2)

• There are also glaciers in Antarctica

• In its current location it is too warm in India for glaciers

• They line up with the glaciers on continents that it connected with in Pangaea

• During Pangaea the world was covered by ice

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These TWO continents look like they fit together like puzzle pieces and led to the development of Continental Drift Theory.

• Africa

• Asia

• Europe

• North America

• South America

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

What kind of plate boundary is shown here?

• divergent
• convergent
• transform
• strike slip

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The three animals above represent what type of evidence that the continents actually moved.

• Zoological evidence

• glacial evidence

• evidence of climate change

• fossil evidence

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1