DRIFTING AND MOVING LANDMASSES SUPERCONTINENT PANGEA LAURASIA & GONDWANALAND CONTINENTAL DRIFT PLATES OF THE EARTH

1. DRIFTING AND
MOVING LANDMASSES
Lesson 9
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2. SUPERCONTINENT
PANGEA
Landmasses of
the Earth were
once part of one
big mass of land.
It broke into two
landmasses.
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4. LAURASIA &
GONDWANALAND
Laurasia
Became North America
and Eurasia.
Gondwanaland
Broke into South America,
Africa, Australia and
Antartica.
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5. CONTINENTAL DRIFT
The breaking up and
drifting of the continents.
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6. PLATES
Thick and solid slabs of
rocks in the Earth’s crust.
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7. asthenosphere
 Molten material in the
upper mantle of the
Earth.
 It enables the plates
to move from time to
time.
Composed of:
Hot and viscous (gel-
like) material
Plate Tectonics
 Explains the breaking
up of Pangea.
 Very often, these
plates are colliding with
each other, pulling each
other or sliding past
one another.
 Instrumental in the
building of continents.
CONTINENTAL DRIFT & PLATE TECTONICS
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8. Major Plates
 North American Plate
 South American Plate
 Pacific Plate
 African Plate
 Indo-Australian Plates
 Eurasian Plate
 Antarctic Plate
PLATES OF THE EARTH
Minor Plates
 Northern Hemisphere
 Juan de Fuca Plate
 Cocos Plate
 Caribbean Plate
 Caroline Plate
 Philippine Plate
 Southern Hemisphere
 Nazea Plate
 Scotia Plate
 Somali Plate
 Fiji Plate
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9. Are plates found under the Pacific,
Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
OCEANIC PLATES
OF THE EARTH
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EXPANDING EARTH &
PANGEA THEORY

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