Grade 10

Continental
Drift Theory 2

Sir Mark Anthony Canilao

Science Department
Objectives:
At the end of the session the students shall
be able to :
1. describe continental drift theory;
2. identify the underlying reason behind
the continental drift theory; and
3. create a puzzle that will discuss
continental drift theory
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Video
Analysis
Listen and Learn
 Guide Questions:

1. What ist the video all about?

2. How does the plate moves based on
the video?
3. Do you believe in this theory?
Group Activity:
Buoin mo ako!
Instructions
1. Cut out the continents & arrange them on
the folder in an alternate layout according to
coastline shapes.
2. Will the “Pangaea” you created be possible
to happen? Explain your answer.
World Map
Guide Questions
1.Were you able to fit all of the countries in
one large continent?
2. What are the different factors that you look
into when you are completing the puzzle?
3. What did you realize while doing the
activity?
Biblical and other
evidences:
Catastrophism
Earth’s surface was
created or shaped
through supernatural
means Noachian Flood,
which was presented in
the bible
Uniformitarianism
- “the present is the key to the
past”
- Based on the Glossary of
Geology, it is the fundamental
principle that geologic processes
and natural laws now operating to
modify the Earth’s crust have
acted in the same regular manner
and with the same intensity
throughout geologic time
Pangea
WEGENER’S EVIDENCE
German meteorologist
and geophysicist who
formulated the first
complete statement of
the continental
drift hypothesis
Pangea
A picture is worth a thousand words
WEGENER’S EVIDENCE
Fossil Evidence
fossils are remains
of living things that
lived long ago.
similar fossils have
been discovered in
matching coastlines
on different
continents.
WEGENER’S EVIDENCE
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