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    Continental Drift Lab: Landmasses

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    The document provides instructions for a lab activity where students will arrange continents based on their current positions, then slide them back in time to reconstruct the supercontinent Pangaea using clues. Students will check their reconstruction, glue it into their journal, and add evidence of glacial scratches, ancient mountains, and similarly aged rock using a provided class set of landmasses. The document also includes questions about the evidence supporting continental drift and features of Pangaea.

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    Continental Drift Lab: Landmasses

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    The document provides instructions for a lab activity where students will arrange continents based on their current positions, then slide them back in time to reconstruct the supercontinent Pangaea using clues. Students will check their reconstruction, glue it into their journal, and add evidence of glacial scratches, ancient mountains, and similarly aged rock using a provided class set of landmasses. The document also includes questions about the evidence supporting continental drift and features of Pangaea.

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    The document provides instructions for a lab activity where students will arrange continents based on their current positions, then slide them back in time to reconstruct the supercontinent Pangaea using clues. Students will check their reconstruction, glue it into their journal, and add evidence of glacial scratches, ancient mountains, and similarly aged rock using a provided class set of landmasses. The document also includes questions about the evidence supporting continental drift and features of Pangaea.

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    Continental Drift Lab: Landmasses

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    The document provides instructions for a lab activity where students will arrange continents based on their current positions, then slide them back in time to reconstruct the supercontinent Pangaea using clues. Students will check their reconstruction, glue it into their journal, and add evidence of glacial scratches, ancient mountains, and similarly aged rock using a provided class set of landmasses. The document also includes questions about the evidence supporting continental drift and features of Pangaea.

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    Name __________________________________________________ Period _____ Date___________________________

    Continental Drift Lab


    Procedure:
    1. Arrange the continents by where they are today.
    2. Use the clues on the puzzle pieces to slide them backwards in time to match them up and replicate the
    supercontinent of Pangaea.
    3. Check your placement of the continents with your teacher.
    4. Glue Pangaea into your Journal according to how they match up. Be sure to glue in the legend as well.
    5. Draw in the evidence of glacial scratches, evidence of ancient mountain chains, and rock of the same age using
    the class set.

    Landmasses
    Class Set
    Use this to draw in the extra information about the evidence of glacial scratches, evidence of ancient
    mountain chains, and rock of the same age.
    Name __________________________________________________ Period _____ Date___________________________
    Continental Drift Lab
    Questions:
    1. What five kinds of evidence from this lab, support Wegner’s theory that the continents were once
    joined in a supercontinent called Pangaea? Be specific!
    a. ____________________________________________________

    b. ____________________________________________________

    c. ____________________________________________________

    d. ____________________________________________________

    e. ____________________________________________________

    2. Where does Greenland join Pangaea? What evidence (geologic features) supports your claim?

    3. Since a dinosaur cannot swim, how can dinosaur fossils be found on all continents?

    4. It is generally considered that dinosaurs live in warm climates, yet fossil remains are found in
    Antarctica. How can this be explained?

    5. Where does Africa join Europe? What is the evidence?

    6. Stegosaurus fossils have not been found on some continents. Explain why this is probably so (and it is
    not because no one has found any yet!).
    7. Similar glacial deposits were found on most continents. What does this probably indicate about the
    overall climate of Pangea at the time?

    8. Do you think the


    following mountain
    ranges are older or
    younger than
    Pangea?

    What is your
    evidence for each?

    a. The Appalachians? (located in the Eastern US/North American Plate)

    b. The Andes? (located on the Eastern border of South America)

    c. The Himalayas? (located in between India and Europe/Asia)

    d. The Rockies? (located in the Western US/North American Plate)

    e. The Alps? (located in the middle of Europe)

    9. Add Glacial Scratches, Ancient Mountain Ranges, and Rocks of the same age to your picture of
    Pangaea that you glue into your Student Notebook (SN).

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