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Pangaea Webquest
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/ideas/gondwana.html
Look at the website listed above to answer the following questions.
1) What was different about Antarctica 200 million years ago (mya)?
2) What is Pangaea?
3) What happened during the past 200 mya that caused these changes into the Antarctica we know today?
Now click on the link “interactive animation” (URL address below) and answer the following questions.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/antarctica/ideas/gondwana2.html
4) What is the theory of continental drift? (hint: click on the link)
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5) How fast can continental drift move? ___________________
6) How long ago did Pangaea begin to split up? ______________
7) What are the names of the two large landmasses that Pangaea split into? ____________ ________________
8) What did each of these landmasses continue to split into?
9) Fill in the flow chart to the right based on your answers to #8.
Pangaea
10) Provide and explain one type of evidence that supports continental drift.
11) Provide and explain another type of evidence that supports continental drift.
12) Provide and explain another type of evidence that supports continental drift.
13) Provide and explain another type of evidence that supports continental drift.
14) How many million years ago (mya) did Australia break apart from Antarctica? _____________
15) Using the timeline function (beginning 235 mya), which direction has South America drifted? ___________
Which direction has Africa drifted? ______________ Which direction has Australia drifted? ____________
Which direction has Antarctica drifted? _____________ Which direction has India drifted? _____________
Visit: http://www.phschool.com/atschool/phsciexp/active_art/continental_drift/continental_drift.swf and click
the circle titled “225 million years ago.” Try to identify Pangaea’s landmasses by dragging down our Earth’s
current continents to their correct location 225 mya. Next, click on “180200 million years ago” and try again to
identify Laurasia’s and Gondwanaland’s landmasses.