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The document describes activities related to continental drift and plate tectonics. It includes instructions for an activity where students cut out and rearrange continents to reconstruct the supercontinent Pangaea from 250 million years ago. Another activity involves using paper strips to model the process of seafloor spreading at mid-ocean ridges, how it causes the separation of continents. A third activity has students use a magnetic polarity map to calculate the rate of seafloor spreading by measuring the distance and age between magnetic polarity peaks on either side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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Activity 4

The document describes activities related to continental drift and plate tectonics. It includes instructions for an activity where students cut out and rearrange continents to reconstruct the supercontinent Pangaea from 250 million years ago. Another activity involves using paper strips to model the process of seafloor spreading at mid-ocean ridges, how it causes the separation of continents. A third activity has students use a magnetic polarity map to calculate the rate of seafloor spreading by measuring the distance and age between magnetic polarity peaks on either side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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Activity 4

Drifted Supercontinent!
Objectives:
Tell the possible direction of motion of the continents as they drifted away
Draw fossils of plants and animals as evidence found in the present
continents that will help solve the puzzle inthe fitting of the drifted
continents
Reconstruct and describe Pangaea
Predict what will happen to the world as thecontinents continuously move

Materials:
Photocopy of the seven continents
World map
Pair of scissors

Procedure:
1. Cut carefully the traces of the seven continents. Warning: Be
careful in using the scissors.
2. Sketch the dominant species of plants and animals found in the
continents before and after drifting from each other.
3. Put the cut-outs together.
Q13. What do the Glossopteris fossils tell us about the early positions
of the continents?
Q14. If Glossopteris fossils were found in Antarctica, what was the
climate of this continent before?
Q15. If climate and the position of a place are relative to each other,
where then was the initial location of Antarica 250 million years ago?
Q16. What does the presence of Mesosaurus fossils tell about the initial
location and positioning od South America, Africa, and Antarctica?
4. Make sure that you put fitting edges of the continents side by sid to form
the supercontinent Pangaea
Q17. What clues are use ful in reconstructing Pangaea?
Q18. Which continents do you think were neighbors before?
Q19. Is there a possibility that the current location of a continent would be
different 100 years from now?
Q20. Where do you think was the philippines located during the time that the
Pangaea existed?Research on how the Philippine island emerged.
5. Compare Pangaea with the world map.
6. Now move one continent relative to its current location.Observe carefully
the direction of its motion as it assumes its current location and position.
Record you observation.
7. Do the same procedure to the other continents. Record your observation.
Q21. If the continents will continue to move try to predict the philippine’s
location 100 million years from now.

Activity 5
Split and Separate!

Objectives:
Simulate and Describe the seafloor spreading process.
Realize the iportance of the seafloor spreading process realtive to the
Continental Drift Theory

Material:
Board paper
bong paper
colored pencil
pair of scissors
ruler

Procedure:
1.Using a colored pencil, draw stripes acroos one sheet of bond paper
parallel to the short sides of the paper. The stripes should vary in spacing
and thickness.
2.Fold the bond paper in half lengthwise
3. Write the “Start” at the top of both halves of the paper. It should look like
the figure on the right.
4. Cut the bond paper in half along the dashed line to form two strips.
5. Take the board paper and make three (3) 11-cm long slits as indicated in
the illistration.
6. The two slits near the edges of the bond paper should be both 11-cm from
the center slit.
7. Put the two striped strips of paper together so that the “Start” labels touch
one another.
8. Insert the stips ip through the center slit, then pull them toward the slide
slits.
9. Insert the ends of the strips into the slide slits. Pull the ends of the strips
as shown in the figure below and watch what happens at the center slit.
10. Practice pulling the strips through the slits until you can make the stripes
come up and go down at the same time.

Q22. What do the stripes in the paper represent?

Q23. What does the middle slit represent? What occurs in this region?

Q24. What is the role of the mid–ocean ridge in the movement of lithospheric
plates?

Q25. How does the new seafloor form at the mid-ocean ridge?

Q26. What process/es happen at the side slits?

Q27. Is the earth getting larger and wider when plates drift away from each

other? Explain briefly.

Activity 6
How fasr does it go!
Objective:
Analyze a magnetic polarity map.
use legends scales of the map properly.
Calculate the rate of seafloor spreading using magnetic clues.

Materials:
1. Study the magnetic polarity map. You will be working only with normal
polarity readings, these are the peaks above the baseline on the top half of
the graph.
2. Place the long edge of the ruler vertically on the graph.Align the ruler with
the center peak 1 this of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
3. Determine and record the distance and age that line up with the center pf
peak 1 west. Reapeat this process for peak 1 east of the ridge.
4. Calculate the average age and distance for this pair of peaks.
5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 for the remaining pairs of normal polarity peaks.
6. Calculate the rate of movements in the Centimeters per year using the
formula Rate=distance/time.
Q28 How far do the plates move away from each other every year

Q29 If Africa is approximately 2,400kms away from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge,


how long ago was it when Africa was directly at or near the Mid-Atlantic
Ridge?

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