Slide 1 Slide 2 Some questions we will answer today: –How is the earth always changing? –What forces inside the earth create and change landforms on the surface? –What…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Theory Of Continental Drift Alfred Wegener It is this German man to whom we credit with the proposal of the theory of Continental Drift. Slide 3 While pondering…
Slide 1Plate Tectonics Slide 2 Earth’s Drifting Continents The theory of continental drift stated by AlfredWegener, a German meteorologist Earth once had a single landmass…
Slide 1 Slide 2 I can: describe what happens during Sea Floor Spreading DO NOW: What is a Mid- ocean Ridge? Slide 3 Vocabulary Sonar Sea-floor spreading Deep-ocean trench…
Slide 1 9.3 Bell Ringer Fossils of a fresh water swimming reptile, Mesosaurus (Figure 2) have been found on the east coast of southern Brazil and the west coast of Africa.…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Slide 3 Close examination of a globe often results in the observation that most of the continents seem to fit together…
Earthquakes By: Luke Carlson and Caleb Tonozzi How Many Supercontinents did Wegnerâs Theory Assume? There was 1 supercontinent called Pangaea. Over millions of years Pangaea…