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How do you think the continents got where they are today? 127 Pangaea Pangaea 128 1/5/16 1/5/16 EQ: Why does the surface of the Earth change? Application: Answer questions here: What clues did you use to fit the continents together? Compare your assembled continents to where the continents are today. Write 2 paragraphs to express your opinion about Alfred Wegener’s theory. You must include evidence and justify your answer. Answer the question and paragraph on the back of the puzzle and turn in Starter: How do you think the continents got where they are today? Practice: Connection/Exit: What fossil evidence would be the most significant to the idea that Pangaea existed? Explain why.

1 Starter 2. Notes 3. Map and Questions 4. Exit January 5, 2015 AGENDA Objective 8.9A Students will describe the historical development of evidence that supports plate tectonic theory by reading and writing during notes and an activity.

Table of Contents Date Lecture/ Activity/ Lab Page 12/2 Newton’s laws Video Quiz 113-114 12/3 Newton’s third Law Lab #2 115-116 12/4 Newton’s Laws Writing 117-118 12/7 Newton’s Laws Review Lab 119-120 12/8 Test Review 121-122 12/10-11 Plate Tectonic 123-124 12/14 Evidence of Continental Drift 125-126 1/4 Pangaea 127-128

Alfred Wegener’s Idea In 1915, the German geologist and meteorologist first proposed the theory of continental drift, which explains that all of the continents were once one super-continent.

Pangaea started to break up into two smaller supercontinents, called Laurasia and Gondwanaland, near the end of the Triassic period.

By the end of the Cretaceous period, the continents were separating into land masses that look like our modern-day continents.

What clues did you use to fit the continents together? Application: Piece together the puzzle into what Pangaea would look like What clues did you use to fit the continents together?

Pangaea

Connection/exit: What fossil evidence would be the most significant to the idea that Pangaea existed? Explain why.

How do you think the continents got where they are today? 127 Pangaea Pangaea 128 1/5/16 1/5/16 EQ: Why does the surface of the Earth change? Application: Answer questions here: What clues did you use to fit the continents together? Compare your assembled continents to where the continents are today. Write 2 paragraphs to express your opinion about Alfred Wegener’s theory. You must include evidence and justify your answer. Answer the question and paragraph on the back of the puzzle and turn in Starter: How do you think the continents got where they are today? Practice: Connection/Exit: What fossil evidence would be the most significant to the idea that Pangaea existed? Explain why.