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Continental Drift Reading Lesson

Continental Drift Reading Lesson

Assessment

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Science

8th Grade

Medium

NGSS
HS-ESS1-5, HS-ESS1-6

Standards-aligned

Created by

Evelyn Ziennker-Lee

Used 5+ times

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Continental Drift Reading Lesson

by Evelyn Ziennker-Lee

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What did Wegener's call the single landmass from 300 million years ago?

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Pangea

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America

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Gowanda

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Atlantis

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What was Wegener's theory called?

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volcanism

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plate tectonics

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continental drift

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evolution

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Why did other scientists make fun of Wegener's idea?

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He had no mechanism for how the plates move

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He had no evidence

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He wasn't a real scientist

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They didn't like his accent

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Why did scientists disagree with tides and centrifugal forces moving the continents?

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Those forces were too weak to move continents

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Those forces were too strong to move the continents

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​reading article from:

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/geo/chapter/reading-wegener-and-the-continental-drift-hypothesis/

Continental Drift Reading Lesson

by Evelyn Ziennker-Lee

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