Pangea Assignment

1. Label the landmasses on the attached page. Use world maps to help you with this task.

2. Cut-out the landmasses. Be careful to cut right along the outside of the lines.

3. Get a sheet of construction paper and a glue stick.

4. Like doing a puzzle with many pieces, take your landmasses and place them on your construction paper. Try to create one large landmass with these small landmasses. When you have them put together, glue them in place. (Millions of years ago all of the continents on Earth were connected to form one large landmass called Pangaea. Over time the continents moved to their present locations. Continents are still in motion.)

5. You will need a computer to continue this activity.

6. Go to the following website: http://www.answers.com/topic/pangaea

7. Click on the small map of Pangaea to enlarge it. Does the map you made of Pangaea look like the one on the website? How are the two maps the same and how are the two maps different?

8. Besides the looking at the shapes of the different continents and seeing how they fit together, what other evidence did Wegener have to help him put together Pangaea? (Hint: check out the following website.) http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/pangaea/evidence.html

9. Which one of the landmasses in Pangaea moved the fastest and furthest to be where it is today? (Hint: check out this website.)
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es0806/es0806page01.cfm?chapter_no=visualization

10. According to plate tectonics the continents are still in motion. Predict what changes will occur in the locations of our continents in the next 250 million years.

11. Here is the prediction of some scientists. (Look at the map on this website.) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070922.html
Were your predictions similar to this map or totally different?