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The document outlines a web quest on plate tectonics, focusing on the contributions of Alfred Wegener and the concept of Pangaea. It includes tasks such as watching an educational video and completing an interactive activity, with questions covering Wegener's discoveries, Earth's structures, and the modern theory of plate tectonics. Key points include evidence for continental drift, the structure of the Earth, and the definition of tectonic plates and their boundaries.

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The document outlines a web quest on plate tectonics, focusing on the contributions of Alfred Wegener and the concept of Pangaea. It includes tasks such as watching an educational video and completing an interactive activity, with questions covering Wegener's discoveries, Earth's structures, and the modern theory of plate tectonics. Key points include evidence for continental drift, the structure of the Earth, and the definition of tectonic plates and their boundaries.

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Name: Mayte Castro Perez Per.

Plate Tectonics WebQuest

Task One: Watch and Learn – Pangaea and Wegener


Use the link below to watch the Animated Life: Pangaea video from the HHMI BioInteractive
website. As you watch the video, answer the following questions. Tiny
URL: http://tinyurl.com/yacu99w9
Full URL: https://www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources/animated-life-pangea

1. Why did Wegener travel to the atmosphere in a balloon? Because he wanted to make
measurements of the atmosphere.

2. What artic country did Wegener travel to and study? The Artic- North and South Pole.

3. What year did Wegener make his discovery and idea of continental drift? 1910

4. In what direction did Wegener think that the continents moved? horizontally

5. What evidence did Wegener have to support his theory of plate tectonics? geology, vegetation , and paleontology
evidence. fossil records, and the stratigraphic columns were very similar.

6. Where is Wegener’s body? in the Artic

7. The video states that the continental plates don’t drift along the ocean floor, as Wegener suggested. How do the
plates really move? plates on the earths crust float in the mantle.

Task Two: Our Dynamic Earth Interactive


Use the link below to complete the Dynamics of Earth Interactive by Annenberg Learner. As you use this interactive,
follow the directions and answers the questions below. Tiny URL: https://tinyurl.com/sddj67o
Full URL: https://www.learner.org/series/interactive-dynamic-earth/

Move your curser over the structures of the Earth and complete the table by filling in three facts per structure.
Structure 1st Fact 2nd Fact 3rd Fact
8. Inner Core extremely hot, solid sphere mostly made up of iron and about 3,200 to 3,960 miles
nickel below the surface.

9. Outer Core the only liquid layer of the about 1,400 miles thick about 1,800 ot 3, 200 miles
earth below the surface

10. Mantle subdivided into 2 layers: upper dense layer made up of hot, 2,900 miles thick
and lower mantle semisolid rock

11. Crust Hard and rigid the earths most outermost and 5 km thick under the oceans
thinnest layer.

12. Lithosphere made up of the crust and a tiny divided into several constantly hood the continents and
bit of the upper mantle. moving plates of solid rock oceans.
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13. plates of the lithosphere float semi liquid zone in the upper directly beneath the
Asthenosphere here. mantle. lithosphere.

Click Next Chapter: Plate Tectonics


14. Look at the picture on the left. About how long ago did the continents appear this way? approximately 250 millions
years ago

Click How Do We Know This?


What two pieces of evidence did Wegener discover that supported the idea of Pangaea?
15. the same plant and animal fossil were found along the coasts of these continents, they are now
separated by vast oceans.

16. he noticed that geologic formations like mountain ranges, on the 2 continents matched up.

17. What does “Pangaea” mean in Greek? all the earth

18. What two major landmasses broke apart from Pangaea? laurasia and Gondwana

19. What continent did Australia separate from? Antarctica

20. What does the modern theory of plate tectonics state? That the Earth’s outer layer, the lithosphere, is broken
into several large slabs called plates.

Click Plate Boundaries


21. How many tectonic plates are shown on the map? 15

22.. Compare the thickness of continental crust and oceanic crust. The thickness of continental crust is thicker than the
Oceanic crust.

23. Which type of crust is usually the oldest? Continental crust

24 What do the plates’ names refer to? The landmassess, oceans or regions of the globe where thy are located.

25. What is the border between two tectonic plates called? A boundary

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