1. If it’s RED, write it If it’s BLUE, highlight it 2.   3. Why are the continents moving? Do you think the continents are moving rightnow? What is causing the movement…

Slide 1Midterm Schedule Thursday January 28 (Periods 1 and 5) Friday January 29 (Periods 2 and 6) Monday February 1 (Periods 3 and 7) Tuesday February 2 (Periods 4 and 8)…

Slide 1C ONTINENTAL D RIFT What evidence do scientists have to support the fact that the Earths crust is continuously moving? Slide 2 1500 S – A BRAHAM O RTELIUS Saw that…

Slide 1Today we will: - Review exercise - Australia to 1914 from last year - Check Bookwork policy is signed - Revision exercises - Video Do now: (and do every time you walk…

Slide 1Mesozoic Events The Piedmont: Newark Basin Slide 2 The Mesozoic Era Mesozoic Era = 251 to 65.5 million years ago. Name Mesozoic means "middle life" Mesozoic…

1.• The Cretaceous Period (meaning "chalk," from the many chalk deposits of this age [the White Cliffs of Dover, to name one]) easily stands as one of the most…

1. Plate Tectonics Ch 17 2.   3. Facts South America moving away from Africa at2-3 cm/year Hawaii is moving NW 8-9 cm/yr Mount Everest growing 5 cm/year 4. Early Theories…

1.  In 1912, a German scientist named Alfred Wegener proposed a hypothesis stating the continents once formed a single landmass, called a supercontinent, then broke up…

1. Continental drift It is the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other by appearing to drift across the ocean bed. The speculation that continents…

1. Plate TectonicsAnd Plate Boundaries HORRAH!!! 2. History of Plate Tectonics and Alfred Wegener 3. History In the 1500’s, a Dutch mapmaker,Abraham Orteliusnoticed the…