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Understanding Pangaea and Plate Tectonics

The document discusses plate tectonics and the supercontinent Pangaea. It describes how Pangaea formed around 245 million years ago before splitting into smaller continents like Laurasia and Gondwana around 180 million years ago. Evidence like matching fossil records between continents supports the idea that continents have drifted apart over geological time.

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Understanding Pangaea and Plate Tectonics

The document discusses plate tectonics and the supercontinent Pangaea. It describes how Pangaea formed around 245 million years ago before splitting into smaller continents like Laurasia and Gondwana around 180 million years ago. Evidence like matching fossil records between continents supports the idea that continents have drifted apart over geological time.

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Plate Tectonics

The Supercontinent Pangaea


PLATE TECTONICS

Why the Earth is Like


How It Is?
What Did
The Earth
Look Like
In The
Past?
Names of Plates
Plate Tectonics
Pieces of the lithosphere that move
around
Each plate has a name
Fit together like jigsaw puzzles
Float on top of mantle similar to ice
cubes in a bowl of water
Continental Drift
Alfred Wegener 1900s
Continents were once a single
land mass that drifted apart.

Fossils of the same plants and


animals are found on different
continents

Called this supercontinent


Pangea, Greek for all Earth

245 Million years ago

Split again Laurasia &


Gondwana 180 million years
ago

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Evidence of Pangea
Tectonic Plates
What is the Asthenosphere?
The plastic layer below the
lithosphere = asthenosphere
The plates of the lithosphere float
on the asthenosphere
Sea Floor Spreading
Sea Floor Spreading
Mid Ocean Ridges underwater mountain
chains that run through the Earths Basins
Magma rises to the surface and solidifies
and new crust forms
Older Crust is pushed
farther away from the ridge
Divergent Boundary
Arabian and African Plates
Divergent Boundary
Iceland

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Divergent Boundary - Oceanic

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Review
Name the 3 main layers of the Earth
What is a tectonic plate?
What was Pangea?
What is Sea-Floor spreading?
Name the three different types of plate
boundaries and one location on Earth for each
one

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