Educational worksheet introducing plate tectonics, covering continental drift, evidence from fossils and rock formations, and Wegener's theory.

1. The Earth’s crust is broken into large pieces called tectonic plates that slowly move.
2. South America and Africa are fit together as if part of a puzzle.
3. The Earth’s plates are large underwater mountain ranges formed by new crust.
4. Circulating convection currents in the mantle push and pull on the Earth’s crustal plates.
5. In 1915, Alfred Wegener proposed the idea of “Continental Drift”.