South West Dig

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:01AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Where in the world was the Ancient Southwest ? And what caused these strange rock formations we can see in the Southwest today ? Let’s find out in this fun GEOGRAPHY Dig.

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:01AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 1 - What is the name of the continent the Ancient Southwest was on over 225 million years ago ? button What is the name of the ocean that surrounded this large continent ? button

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:01AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 2 - When the earth was one whole continent, animals could roam nearly anywhere on the earth. When it first started to separate, what name do scientists call the northernmost continent ? When did this happen ? And what continents that we know today were part of the one land mass? button

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:02AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 3 - What name do scientists call the two southernmost continents that were formed when Pangaea divided into two large land masses ? When did this happen ? And what continents that we know today were part of the two southern continents ? button

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:02AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 4 - What is the name of the theory of the earth’s crust-in-motion that the first scientist who recognized Pangaea created ? What was his regular job ? button

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:02AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 5 - This first theory from the early 1900s was confirmed in the mid 1900s when a geologist and an oceanographer discovered something never before known in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. What did they find ? And what new theory did it lead to ? button

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:02AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 6 - What large animals, now extinct, lived in the Ancient Southwest when it was a part of Laurasia ? button

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:03AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 7 - Some of these animal’s fossils are found in the Ancient Southwest and in AFRICA – how is that possible ? Write us your theory.

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:03AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 8 - When the drifting continents reached their position similar to what we see today, 65 million years ago, button North and South America were not connected. It took what type of geology activity to connect our continent as one whole land mass ? button

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:03AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 9 - Once the continents settled into the position they are today, what geologic forces started shaping the Ancient Southwest into the form we know today ? button

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:03AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 10 - Can you name the two largest rivers in the Southwest that have shaped the land and the lives of the people ? button

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:03AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 11 - Where is the Colorado plateau and how did it form ? Hint – its in the last paragraph on this page and effected all of the Southwest. button

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:04AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 12 - Can you name the three deserts in the Southwest ? button

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:04AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 13 - What and where is the Rio Grande Rift ? what caused it ? button

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:04AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 14 - What is the largest canyon in the Southwest –and the most famous ? how old is it’s oldest rock ? button

Your SW Geography Guide: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 8:04AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 15 – One of the most remarkable features of Ancient Geology we can see today are the arches and mesas of the Southwest. You can read about these formations in our Canyonlands section button . What are the forces that create these mesas and arches – and how big are the large arches ?

Lindsey,Hertaige: . . . . Tue, Feb 12, 3:16PM PST (-0800 GMT)
#7...... My theroy is, that when everthing was a part of Pangaea,(What used to be the only continet millions of years ago)what now is called AFRICA and NORTH AMERICA were conjoined together(even though Pangaea was only one continet)and when they seperated,some dinosaurs(of that speicies) were left on AFRICA and some were left on NORTH AMERICA.

Al Z/Fleming: . . . . Thu, Feb 14, 9:32AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Period2 . The class thought that the names of the continents when Pangea started to separate were strange , especially Gonwandaland

/fleming: . . . . Thu, Feb 14, 11:14AM PST (-0800 GMT)
Period4 Mercedes realized that the continents separated from a process called Plate tectonics; Darrick thought that the Pangea theory was awesome.Brian also commente tha the theory was cool amd he was amazed how the pieces seemed to fit together.Laura wanted yo know how the theory of Tectonic was developed

AZ/Fleming: . . . . Thu, Feb 14, 1:58PM PST (-0800 GMT)
Period 6/// We had four teams researching this dig: Shannon and Ted's team felt it was interesting to find out that all the continents were formed together.Margaret's team felt that the dinosaurs in the South west were plentiful and of many different typs . Edgar's team felt happy because they learned some basic computerskills likeprinting, browsing from one screen to another

Cesar,felix: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 10:57AM PST (-0800 GMT)
1.What is the name of the continent the Ancient Southwest was on over 225 million years ago ? The name was Pangaea

Susan Wong at Nightingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 10:58AM PST (-0800 GMT)
# 1 The named is Permian.

ElizabethV.@Nightingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 10:59AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#1 The name of the continent is Permian Pangea Some 225 million years ago all the world's land masses were joined together into one supercontinent, Pangaea, surrounded by a single universal sea, Panthalassa.

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Cesar,felix: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:02AM PST (-0800 GMT)
2.What is the name of the ocean that surrounded this large continent ? Some 225 million years ago all the world's land masses were joined together into one supercontinent,Pangaea, surrounded by a single universal sea, Panthalassa.

Susan Wong at Nightingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:03AM PST (-0800 GMT)
# 1 The named is Pangea PANGEA Some 225 million years ago all the world's land masses were joined together into one supercontinent, Pangaea, surrounded by a single universal sea, Panthalassa.

Chan Mi Kim @Nightingale MS: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:03AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#1 The names of the continents when Pangea started to separate were strange , especially Gonwandaland.

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ElizabethV.@Nightingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:06AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#2 Triassic age200 million years ago Laurasia NOrth,south america Africa,Asia,Australia,Antartica,India

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ElizabethV.@Nightingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:08AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#3 Laurasia Gondwanaland

Susan Wong at Nightingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:12AM PST (-0800 GMT)
# 2 The scientists called it Triassic.It spread apart from each other.The contient is North America,SouthAmerica,Africa Asia,Austraila,and Antarctica.

Karina Moran at NMS: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:13AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 1-A.The name of the continent Permian B.The name of the ocean that surrounded this large continent is Tethys sea.

Cesar,felix: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:14AM PST (-0800 GMT)
4. What is the name of the theory of the earth’s crust-in-motion that the first scientist who recognized Pangaea created ? What was his regular job ? The theory of continental drift was first proposed by German meteorologist Alfred Wegener in 1912. It was not until the 1960s, however, when geologist Harry H. Hess and oceanographer Robert S. Dietz developed the theory of seafloor spreading that Wegener's postulate gained acceptance.

Francisco ArellanoNGM: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:15AM PST (-0800 GMT)
1. the name of the southwest is pangea

E.V.@Nihgtingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:16AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#5 It is now believed that the several moving plates of the Earth's crust are formed by volcanic activity at the oceanic ridges and destroyed in great seafloor trenches at the margins of the continents, accounting for the massive redefinition of the Earth's surface over millenia.

Elio Vega: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:16AM PST (-0800 GMT)
1 the name is Permin

henry: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:17AM PST (-0800 GMT)
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Susan Wong at Nightingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:17AM PST (-0800 GMT)
# 3 The south called Austraila,Antarctica.The mass is little bit of big then the other one.

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Andrea Morales Nigthingale all the world's land masses were joined together into one supercontinent, Pangaea, surrounded by a single universal sea, Panthalassa.

E.V.@Nihgtingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:18AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#6 Dinosaurs

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# 1 The named is Pangea PANGEA Some 225 million years ago all the world's land masses were joined together into one supercontinent, Pangaea, surrounded by a single universal sea, Panthalassa.

E.V.@Nihgtingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:21AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#8 Pangea Some 225 million years ago all the world's land masses were joined together into one supercontinent, Pangaea, surrounded by a single universal sea, Panthalassa. Through the upheavals that we have since come to know as plate tectonics, the shifting of the Earth's crust slowly tore the supercontinent asunder about the middle of the Mesozoic period (approximately 180 million years B.P.) and large bodies of land drifted across the surface of the Earth to ultimately become our present-day continents.

Llamil Castillo : . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:23AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#1. the name of the southwest is pangea

Karina Moran at Nightingale MS: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:23AM PST (-0800 GMT)
DIG Challenge 2- The name is Laurasia it was happening in the period of Triassic in 200 million years ago.Today is know use Asia that prat of the World.

Cesar,felix: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:24AM PST (-0800 GMT)
3. What name do scientists call the two southernmost continents that were formed when Pangaea divided into two large land masses ? When did this happen ? And what continents that we know today were part of the two southern continents ? Laurasia Gondwanaland

Susan Wong at Nightingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:24AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#4 Earth's crust slowly tore the supercontinent asunder about the middle of the Mesozoic period (approximately 180 million years B.P.) and large bodies of land drifted across the surface of the Earth to ultimately become our present-day continents.

Llamil Castillo Mrs.Mason Nightingale : . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:25AM PST (-0800 GMT)
# 2 The scientists called it Triassic.It spread apart from each other.The contient is North America,SouthAmerica,Africa Asia,Austraila,and Antarctica.

Llamil Castillo Mrs.Mason Nightingale : . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:26AM PST (-0800 GMT)
# 2 The scientists called it Triassic.It spread apart from each other.The contient is North America,SouthAmerica,Africa Asia,Austraila,and Antarctica.

E.V.@Nihgtingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:27AM PST (-0800 GMT)
# 9 perpetual bodies of water hold one of the greatest powers that shaped the Ancient Southwest landscape. The other major power was the plate tectonics turning the single massive continent of Pangaea into the multiple continents we know today, pushing, lifting, smashing land masses and causing violent earthquakes, rising

Llamil Castillo Mrs.Mason Nightingale : . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:27AM PST (-0800 GMT)
# 3 The south called Austraila,Antarctica.The mass is little bit of big then the other one.

E.V.@Nihgtingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:28AM PST (-0800 GMT)
# 10 the Colorado River and the Rio Grande

Chan Mi Kim @ Nightingale MS: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:28AM PST (-0800 GMT)
# 2 The scientists called it Triassic.It spread apart from each other.The contient is North America,SouthAmerica,Africa Asia,Austraila,and Antarctica.

Llamil Castillo Mrs.Mason Nightingale : . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:29AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#5 It is now believed that the several moving plates of the Earth's crust are formed by volcanic activity at the oceanic ridges and destroyed in great seafloor trenches at the margins of the continents, accounting for the massive redefinition of the Earth's surface over millenia.

Susan Wong @ Nightingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:29AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#5 The theory of continental drift was first proposed by German meteorologist Alfred Wegener in 1912. It was not until the 1960s, however, when geologist Harry H. Hess and oceanographer Robert S. Taken together, they led to the theory of plate tectonics, or global tectonics.I think they find Volcanic

Chan Mi Kim @ Nightingale MS: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:29AM PST (-0800 GMT)
# 3 The south called Austraila,Antarctica.The mass is little bit of big then the other one.

Susan Wong @ Nightingale M.S.: . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:30AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#6 The first animals is the Dinosaurs.

Llamil Castillo Mrs.Mason Nightingale : . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:31AM PST (-0800 GMT)
# 10 the Colorado River and the Rio Grande

Llamil Castillo Mrs.Mason Nightingale : . . . . Fri, Feb 15, 11:31AM PST (-0800 GMT)
#6 The first animals is the Dinosaurs.

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