Student Exploration: Building Pangaea Vocabulary: continental drift, fossil, glacier, ice age, landmass, Pangaea, supercontinent
Prior knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.)
1. Antarctica is a frozen land, so cold and icy that no trees can grow there. Yet scientists have
discovered fossils (remains preserved in rock) of ancient trees in Antarctica
What do you think this means?
2. The Himalayas in central Asia are the tallest mountains in the world. But fossils of seashells
can be found high in these mountains, far from any ocean.
How do you think they got there?
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