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Grade 10 Activity 5

This document provides the objectives, materials, and procedures for an activity about the supercontinent Pangaea. Students will cut out continents from a map and piece them together based on fossil evidence to reconstruct the positions of the continents in Pangaea over 250 million years ago. They will then predict how the positions of continents, including the Philippines, may change in the future as continental drift continues.

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Grade 10 Activity 5

This document provides the objectives, materials, and procedures for an activity about the supercontinent Pangaea. Students will cut out continents from a map and piece them together based on fossil evidence to reconstruct the positions of the continents in Pangaea over 250 million years ago. They will then predict how the positions of continents, including the Philippines, may change in the future as continental drift continues.

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Name: ______________________________Section: __________Score: _________

Activity # 5
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 in the fitting of the drifted continents.
 Reconstruct and describe Pangaea.
 Predict what will happen to the world as the continents continuously move.

Materials:
 Photocopy of the seven continents, world map, pair of scissors

Procedure:
1. Carefully cut the traces of the seven continents.
2. Sketch the dominant species of plants and animals found in the continents
before and after drifting away from each other.
3. Put the cut-outs together.
Q1. What do the Glossopteris fossils tell us about the early positions of
the continents?
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Q2. If Glossopteris fossils were found in Antarctica, what was the climate
of this continent before?
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Q3. If the climate and the position of a place are relative to each other,
where then was the initial location of Antarctica 250 million years ago?
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Q4. What does the presence of Mesosaurus fossils tell about the initial
location and positioning of South America, Africa, and Antarctica?
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4. Make sure that you put fitting edges of the continents side by side to form
the supercontinent Pangaea>
Q5. What clues are useful in reconstructing Pangaea?
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Q6. Which continents do you think were neighbors before?
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Q7. Is there a possibility that the current location of a continent would be
different 100 years from now?
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Q8. Where do you think was the Philippines located during the time that
the Pangaea existed?
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5. Compare Pangaea with the world map.
6. Now, move one continent relative to each current location. Carefully observe
the direction of its motion as it assumes its current location and position.
7. Do the same procedure (6) to the other continents.
Q9. If the continents will continue to move, try to predict the Philippines’
location 100 million years from now.
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