PPT-EVOLUTION/HISTORY OF THE CONTINENTS

Chapter 10 Spreading center divergent boundary Subduction margin convergent boundary Transform fault Island arc Submarine deposits Ancient ocean floor Displaced continental fragments. According . to Alfred Wegener, the super-continent of Pangea began to break up 200 million years ago with the continents attaining the size, shape, and location where we see them today. This movement of continents has not yet come to an end. According to J. Tuzo Wilson, the breakup and drifting of the present continents . Write On . Grade. . 3. Learner Expectation. Content Standard:. 3.0 . Geography enables the students to see, understand and appreciate the web of relationships between people, places, and environments. Students will use the knowledge, skills, and understanding of concepts within the six essential elements of geography: world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, and the uses of geography.. How 2 continents fell in love…and created a big, beautiful world. . By: Carla Vigil. SS-EP-4.1.2. Students will use geographic tools to identify major landforms (e.g., continents, mountain ranges), bodies of water (e.g., oceans, major rivers) and natural resources on Earth’s surface and use relative location. Video on Earth 1 million years from now. Theory of Continental Drift. Alfred Wegener . wrote . about his hypothesis of . continental . drift . in the 1900s. .. Continental drift.  is the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations. . Ahead of its Time. It has been recognized for along time that coastlines of South America and Africa appear to fit together. Still it is another feature of Geology where direct information had been missing, and the thinking of individuals were much different.. Do Now. Why is it important to learn about the continents . and oceans?. Directions. Answer the questions on the back. Question 1 can be found on page H3 and question 3 can be found on page H10. . Questions 2 and 4 can be found on Atlas page 129.. Evidence for Plate Tectonics. Changes in Sea Floor Magnetism. Evidence for Plate Tectonics. Continents fit together like a puzzle. Changes in Sea Floor Magnetism. Evidence for Plate Tectonics. Fossils of plants and animals of the same species found on different continents. . Name all 7 continents. North America. South America. Africa. Antarctic. Australia. Europe. Asia. Pangaea. Pangaea is the name for the original super continent. Pan .  all. G. aea  Earth. The continents looked like they might fit together like puzzle pieces. Unit 12.1. These observations lead him to come up with the . ___________________________. A very long time ago (~200 million years) the continents were joined together in a . ___________________. called . 1. Unit 2, Lesson 5: What are Some Ways to Organize or Regionalize the Earth?. 2. REGION: . an area with at least one characteristic or feature that sets it apart from other areas. 3. Review. What is one way to divide Michigan into regions?. T. he . E. vidence . F. or . C. ontinental Drift.. Tyler Young . Amesbury 4. th. . Sep. 21, 2015. Alfred Wegener . Alfred . Lothar. Wegener (. nov. , 1, 1880 . -. 1930) was a German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist.. Miss Osment’s First grade . What is a continent?. A . continent . is a large body of land, that is considerably larger than an island, and consists of many different countries. Continents are also characterized by being surrounded by large bodies of water called oceans or seas. . sacrifice. . to. . explore. the . unknown?. Ob-. sta. -. cle. Antarctica is the windiest, coldest, most forbidding region on Earth, and I am heading straight for it.. Antarctica is the windiest, coldest, most . 1. What is Wegener’s hypothesis?. That all of the continents were once joined together is a single landmass and have since drifted apart.. 2. Wegener’s idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth’s surface became known as…..