1. How do you think the continents got where they are today?
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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.

2. 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.

3. Table of Contents Date Lecture/ Activity/ Lab Page
12/ Newton’s laws Video Quiz
12/ Newton’s third Law Lab #
12/ Newton’s Laws Writing
12/ Newton’s Laws Review Lab
12/ Test Review
12/ Plate Tectonic
12/ Evidence of Continental Drift
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4. 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.

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

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

7. 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?

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

10. 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.