Pangea

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Science

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6th Grade

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Easy

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NGSS

MS-ESS2-3, MS-LS4-1, MS-ESS2-1

Standards-aligned

Nicole Manning

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Tuesday, November 16

Pangea

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What do the arrows in the Mantle represent?

Convection currents

Ocean crust

Strong winds

Earthquakes

Multiple Choice

What causes convection currents?

Heating and cooling of rock in the mantle

Strong winds in the troposphere

Meteors hitting Earth

Earthquakes

Multiple Select

Which of the following are caused by convection currents? (choose all correct answers)

Divergent boundary

Convergent boundaries

Transform boundary

Lithosphere boundary

Multiple Choice

Who first proposed the idea of Continental Drift?

Harry Hess

Albert Einstein

Alfred Wegener

Galileo Galilee

Multiple Choice

What did Wegener name the large supercontinent where all the continents were joined together?

Wegenerland

Megaland

NASA

Pangea

Multiple Choice

What evidence is there for Pangea?

Fossils and rocks

Weather patterns

Ocean movement

Earthquakes

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT evidence Wegener used to support his theory of Continental drift?

Fossils

Glaciers

Coastlines that fit like puzzle pieces

Roadways

Multiple Choice

Why do the coastlines of Africa and South America appear to fit together like puzzle pieces?

Africa and South America used to be joined together, but split apart long ago.

Erosion has caused the coastlines into take the same shape.

Lystrosaurus was a slow-moving, plant-eating reptile that lived over 250 million years ago.

Multiple Choice

Fossils of Lystrosaurus have been found in the brown shaded areas. How is this explained by the existence of Pangaea?

Lystrosaurus swam across the oceans from one continent to another.

Lystrosaurus drifted on rafts of vegetation from one continent to another.

Africa, Antarctica, and India used to be joined together into a single landmass.

Multiple Choice

This is a picture of glacial scratches found in Africa. Which of the following statements best explains the presence of these glacial scratches?

Africa has always been near the equator

Africa was once in an area of the Earth that had a very cold climate

The continents have not moved

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