?
Answer: Africa & North America collided to form the Appalachians
How are great folded mts.formed?
?
* Name three examples of folded mt. ranges.
* The ancient supercontinent was named ......?......
?
Name three pieces
of evidence that
supports the idea
that S. America & Africa
were once joined together?
Which two continents collided
to form the great Himalaya Mts.?
?
Where is the epicenter located?
?
* How many recording stations are
needed to pinpoint the earthquake epicenter?
Answer: epicenter is where all 3 circles intersect
(*3 recording stations are needed to pinpoint the epicenter location)
Answer: mesosaurus
Which two continents collided
to form the Appalachian Mts.?
?
Answer: India collided with S.Asia to form the Himalaya
Answer: glossopteris
?
What is the name
of the small reptile
whose fossils are found in both
South America and Africa?
What does the phrase “jigsaw fit”
have to do with a supercontinent?
Answer: 1) rock formations match 2) fossils match
3) glacial scrathces match 4) coastlines match
Answer: Mid-Atlantic Ridge (part of the Mid-Ocean ridge system)
?
What is the name
of the tropical plant
whose fossils are found in both
South America and Africa?
?
Because coastlines
matched up so well,
I believed that Africa and
S. America were once joined.
Who am I?
Answer: the coastlines of continents fit together like pieces of a
jigsaw puzzle (* Pangaea is the name of the supercontinent)
?
Answer: Alfred Wegener
The great mountain range that
runs down the middle of the
Atlantic Ocean is the ........?........
Answer: folded mts form when two continents collide
(* Himalaya, Appalachians, & Alps are folded mountain ranges)