pangaea use
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What is Pangaea?
What is Continental Drift?
What is a Theory?
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Alfred Wegener: German scientist
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Wegener was a geologist.
Geologists study rocks and fossils.
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Alfred Wegener
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Drift
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Alfred Wegener
1912: The Theory of Continental Drift
idea
land
movement
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Wegener studied fossils from South American and Africa. He saw some fossils were the same.
1912: The Theory of Continental Drift
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1912: The Theory of Continental Drift
Wegener studied fossils from South American and Africa. He saw some fossils were the same.
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1912: The Theory of Continental Drift
Wegener studied fossils from South American and Africa. He saw some fossils were the same.
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1912: The Theory of Continental Drift
Wegener studied fossils from South American and Africa. He saw some fossils were the same.
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1912: The Theory of Continental Drift
Some fossils were the same. How did that happen?
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1912: The Theory of Continental Drift
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1912: The Theory of Continental Drift
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Wegener wrote an article about this theory. He invented the name ‘Pangea.’
Pangea
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Pangea.From the Greek wordsPan = ‘all’ and Gaia = ‘Earth’
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Pangea, the Supercontinent
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Eurasia
Australia
Africa
North America
South
America
Antarctica
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http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/historical.html#anchor4833509
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1,600,000,000 years ago
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Question: Why are the continents drifting?
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Answer: Plate tectonics
This is a plate.
This is a plate.
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plate = landtectonics = building or moving
This is a plate.
This is a plate.
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Answer: Plate tectonics
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Answer: Plate tectonics
This is a plate.
This is a plate.This is a plate.
This is a plate.
This is a plate.
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http://dogfoose.com/2011/03/plate-tectonics/
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The red areas around the plates (the plate boundaries) are ‘hot zones’ where earthquakes happen.
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The red areas around the plates (the plate boundaries) are ‘hot zones’ where earthquakes happen.
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How do the plates move?
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1. Plates slide past each other.
Earthquakes happen between
the plates.
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Example: The San Andreas Fault in California
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2. Plates separate from each other.
Volcanoes erupt between the plates under
the ocean. The ocean floor bigger.
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Example: This Rift Valley in East Africa
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3. Plates crash into each other.
Crashing plates make mountains.
http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/tectonics/tectonics-collide.html
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3. Example: Mountains in Peru, South America
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Will the continents continue to drift?What will the earth look like in the future?
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Will the continents continue to drift?What will the earth look like in the future?
http://files.myopera.com/edwardpiercy/blog/6-Future-250AP-2.jpg
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