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Pangaea Break-up and Plate Collisions: Understanding Mountain Range Formation

Learn about the break-up of Pangaea and how it led to the formation of different continents. Identify locations of mountain ranges and hypothesize plate collisions. Discover fascinating fossils and understand why mountain ranges move.

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Pangaea Break-up and Plate Collisions: Understanding Mountain Range Formation

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  1. Thursday, January 2, 2020 Objective: YWBAT depict and explain the break-up of Pangaea. Drill: Using a world map, identify two locations where mountain ranges exist and where you hypothesize plate collisions have occurred. Homework Play Outside!!

  2. Answer Answers will vary

  3. Did you know…? Fossils of Mesosaurus, a small aquatic reptile, and Glossopteris, an ancient plant species, have been found on several continents.

  4. Today’s Activities Drill Chapter 7 DRW Study WOW Conclusion

  5. Closure Question Explain why entire mountain ranges move.

  6. Conclusion Answer Mountain ranges move because they are part of the tectonic plates which move around on the asthenosphere.

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