Unit 2 M1L1 Vocab

What is the definition of Pangaea?

• The name of a Greek mythology character

• a super-continent that incorporated all of the present continents in the world joined together.

• the ancient super-continent in the Southern Hemisphere that incorporated present-day South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica

• A type of ancient fossil ferns, or fern-like plants that grew in the Permian and Triassic periods in the supercontinent of Gondwana.

What is the definition of Gondwana?

• A geological rock formation off the coast of Africa that proves the existence of Pangea

• a super-continent that incorporated all of the present continents in the world joined together.

• the ancient super-continent in the Southern Hemisphere that incorporated present-day South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica

• A type of ancient fossil ferns, or fern-like plants that grew in the Permian and Triassic periods in the supercontinent of Gondwana.

What is the definition of Continental Drift?

• A Fast and Furious movie

• a super-continent that incorporated all of the present continents in the world joined together.

• The gradual movement of continents across the earth's surface through geological time.

• The movement of glaciers across land.

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What is a Glacier?

• A type of geological formation

• The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock

• A brand of bottled water

• A large mass of ice that moves slowly on a land surface and does not melt during summer.

What are Fossils?

• The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock

• Really old things

• a large mass of ice that moves slowly on a land surface and does not melt during summer

• A type of rock formation caused by the slow erosion of soil by a river

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What is the definition of Glossopteris?

• The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock

• A type of ancient fossil ferns, or fern-like plants that grew in the Permian and Triassic periods in the supercontinent of Gondwana.

• The section at the end of a book that contains a list of terms and definitions

• A type of dinosaur from the Jurassic period whose fossils are found in North America and Greenland