DIRECTIONS: WEGENER’S FOSSIL EVIDENCE for CONTINENTAL DRIFT
MATERIALS: Color Key Handout; Continental Land Mass Handout; Land Mass
Outline; scissors; tape; colored pencils
PROCEDURE:
1. Label the land masses before you cut them out. You may use any
reference material provided. Color the fossil areas to match the Fossil
COLOR KEY.
2. Cut out each of the continents along the edge of the continental shelf
(the outermost dark line). Alfred Wegener’s evidence for continental drift is
shown on the cutouts. Wegener used this evidence to reconstruct the
positions of the continents as they existed millions of years ago.
3. Try to logically piece the continents together so they form a giant super
continent.
4. When you are satisfied with “the fit” of the continents, discuss the
evidence with your lab partners and decide if the evidence supports this
arrangement or not.
5. Place your final puzzle pieces in the proper “fit” based on the evidence
on the outline provided and tape them in place.
6. Write an explanation of your decision and the reasoning you used based
on the evidence.
Prepared by: Dr. Debbie Payne, Ruth H. Liddell, Shirley K. Scarbrough
Alabama State University, Math, Science Partnership, Fall 2013