Pangea Puzzle
Print the sheet, cut out the 9 pieces and fit them together into Pangea as it was 200 million years ago. All pieces are at the same scale.
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How to use it
- Print the sheet. Untick "Show names" first for a harder version.
- Cut out each piece along its outline.
- Fit the pieces together. Start with South America and Africa, whose coasts match best.
- Check your result against the answer key below.
Pieces: Eurasia, South America, India, Africa, North America, Antarctica, Australia, Greenland, Madagascar.
Answer key
Pieces are today's continents moved to where they sat 200 million years ago by the MULLER2019 plate model. Gaps and overlaps are normal: the shapes are today's coastlines, not the ancient ones.
About this sheet
- Grade band: Grades 4 to 8 (ages 9 to 14), our estimate.
- License: free for classroom use. Print as many copies as you need.
- Data: reconstruction from the GPlates Web Service, model MULLER2019, Müller et al. (2019), A global plate model including lithospheric deformation along major rifts and orogens since the Triassic, Tectonics 38, CC BY 4.0.