Continental+Plates

Use textbook page 284 and the Continental Plates worksheet shown below.
 * Pangaea**, Plate Tectonics, & Continental Drift

Instructions Using the 10 plate outlines of the Earth's crust, put the super continent (Pangaea) back together. (Hint: put the 250s and then 400s together first.)
 * The shape of different land masses, tracks and deposits from past glaciers, similar rock ages, and similar dinosaur fossils are used as evidence to support the existence of the super continent of the past called Pangaea.
 * Fit the plate pieces together like a puzzle and also put like evidence close together.
 * Start by fitting the four pieces together that have rocks that scientist assume to be 400 million years old.

Answer these questions: 1. Rock type, fossils, glacial deposits, and glacier "tracks", are four types of ........ that support the theory of plate tectonics. 2. Explain why similar fossils can be found on opposite sides of an ocean, when there is no way the organisms could have traveled that far when alive. 3. Explain why fossils of tropical animals are found in Antarctica even though the poles of the Earth have never been warm.



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