Earth Science: “Colliding Continents” National Geographic Video Worksheet
Name:
Date:
4.6 Billion years ago, how was the Earth created?
According to some physical geographers, where did the earth’s water come from?
Which (current) continent was the first stable landform on earth?
What type of rock formed the first continents?
How do scientists try to determine the age of rocks?
The giant jigsaw of interlocking pieces of rock which make up the earth’s crust are called
first proposed the idea of “Continental
A German scientist named
Drift”.
Heat escaping from the core creates
earth called the
in the next layer of the
.
The landmass of this country was formed because of bubbling lava between two continental plates:
How fast are the North American and European plates moving apart?
per year
A subduction zone is where plates do what?
The name of the last super continent (when all continents joined together) was
When crust collides at a convergent boundary, what landform begins to form?
The formation of The Alps is the direct result of collision between which two continents?
and
The Himalayas formed as the result of a collision between what two plates?
and
What will the continents/countries look like:
-50 million years from now?
-100 million years from now?
-250 million years from now?
Post-Film Reflection: Imagine you lived on a supercontinent like Pangaea. Discuss one advantage
and one disadvantage to living on the ONLY land mass on Earth.
Advantage:
Disadvantage: