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Look Back to Yesterday

Maps Globes

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Students will name, locate, anddiscuss the beginnings thecontinents and oceans.

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Spaceship Earth

/ike a grand andmiraculous spaceship,

our planet has sailedthrough the uni0erse of

time and for a briefmoment we ha0e been

among its passengers.3

4Spaceship 5arth,5pcot

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Vocabulary

Pangaea ) was a supercontinent that e6isted#77 to 177 million years ago

Plate Tectonics) the theory that the 5arths

outer shell is di0ided into se0eral plates thatmo0e slowly o0er time

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Pangaea

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Discussion uestions

Do you think that the way continents fit togetheris con0incing e0idence for the theory of platetectonics8 9hy or why not8

ow does the theory of plate tectonics help use6plain natural phenomena such as earth;uakes

and mountains, which geologists had difficultyaccounting for prior to the de0elopment of thetheory8

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!ontinents and "ceans

Southern "cean

Paci#c "cean

$orth%&erica

South%&erica

%tlantic"cean

%'rica

Europe %sia

(ndian"cean

%ustralia

%rctic "cean

%ntartica