Year 5 Pangea Quiz

What was Pangea?

• A species of dinosaur

• A large ocean that covered the Earth

• A mountain range

• A supercontinent that existed around 280 million years ago

What does the word 'Pangea' mean in Greek?

• Big ocean

• All lands

• Huge mountain

• One Earth

How fast do the Earth's plates move?

• About the same speed that your fingernails grow

• Faster than a running cheetah

• As fast as a snail

• As fast as a car

What was the name of the single big ocean during the time of Pangea?

• Atlantic Ocean

• Indian Ocean

• Panthalassa

• Pacific Ocean

What process led to the formation of Pangea?

• Meteor impacts

• Volcanic eruptions

• Plate tectonics

• Global warming

What were the two smaller land masses Pangea split into?

• Asia and Africa

• North America and South America

• Eurasia and Afro-Eurasia

• Laurasia and Gondwana

Which continents were part of Gondwana?

• Australia, Antarctica, and North America

• South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and India

• Europe, Asia, and Africa

• North America, Europe, and Asia

How do scientists know about Pangea?

• Through underwater exploration

• Through ancient texts

• By studying rocks and fossils

• By using satellite images

True or False: Similar dinosaur fossils have been found in both Africa and South America.

• True

• Maybe

• Unknown

• False

What evidence suggests that continents were once connected?

• The similarity in climate across continents

• The shape of the continents

• Similar rock formations and fossils in now distant places

• The presence of water on all continents