tudent Exploration: Building Pangaea
Vocabulary: continental drift, fossil, glacier, ice age, landmass, Pangaea, supercontinent
Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.)
1. Antarctica is a frozen la
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tudent Exploration: Building Pangaea
Vocabulary: continental drift, fossil, glacier, ice age, landmass, Pangaea, supercontinent
Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.)
1. Antarctica is a frozen land, so cold and icy that no trees can grow there. Yet scientists have
discovered fossils (remains preserved in rock) of ancient trees in Antarctica.
What do you think this means? ________________________________________________
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2. The Himalayas in central Asia are the tallest mountains in the world. But fossils of seashells
can be found high in these mountains, far from any ocean.
How do you think they got there? ______________________________________________
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Gizmo Warm-up
1. The Gizmo allows you to drag and rotate all the major
landmasses on Earth.
x To drag a landmass, grab it in the middle.
x To rotate a landmass, grab it near the edge.
x Learn the names by opening the Tools menu and
dragging the Help icon over the landmasses.
x Mark where you live. Open the Tools menu and
drag an arrow to your location.
2. Test your geography skills. Drag and rotate landmasses randomly until you make a big
mess. Then try to move them back to their original positions.
When you have made the best map you can, open the Tools menu, select Screen shot,
and copy the image into a blank document. Label the image “Map 1.”
3. Click Reset. Compare your map to the real one. How well did you do? _________________
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I think this means that in one period of time, there was life
on Antarctica, and maybe the coldness killed them and they
could be preserved in these trees. Maybe Antarctica wasn't
always cold.
I think that the Himalayas were once a sea floor and as time
went on, they formed the Himalayas by to plates moving
together.
Map 1
I did pretty well but some of the continents were a little off
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