Pangaea
Name: ____________________
Date: __________ Period:_____
About 225 million years ago there was
only one giant continent. It was called
PANGAEA (pan-Gee-uh). This name
means “all land”. The weather or
climate was generally warm and dry, and
the land was covered by many deserts.
During the next 100 million years, the
land began to break up. The sections
called plates slowly drifted apart. Te
climate changed and new types of plant
developed. Great seas separated the
continents and animals were no longer
able to roam throughout much of the land and mingle with one another.
On a map or globe, look at the continents as they are today. It is easy to see how
some of the continents could fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle.
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4
5
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Down
1. A hot dry place.
2. At one time these were all
together.
3. Conditions in the atmosphere.
5. Dinosaurs lived on ________
6. Not wet
Across
2. The average weather over a
long period of time.
4. Large moving sections of land.
7. Our planet.
8. To move slowly.
9. To move from place to place.