CER
Scientists use this to make a statement that answers a question.
What is a claim?
This term means a large, continuous landmass on Earth.
What is continent?
He proposed the idea that the continents were once joined in a supercontinent.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This is the continent we live on.
What is North America?
Mrs. Mahinan earned her bachelor’s degree from this university.
What is Long Beach State?
This part of CER provides data or observations that support the claim.
What is evidence?
This word means “life” or “living organisms” and is found in words like biosphere.
What is bio-?
Wegener’s supercontinent was called this.
What is Pangaea?
This continent is directly south of Europe.
What is Africa?
This is Mrs. Mahinan's ethnicity.
What is Filipino?
This explains how the evidence supports the claim using scientific principles.
What is reasoning?
This is the part of Earth where living organisms exist and interact with their environment.
What is the biosphere?
Similar remains of plants and animals found on continents now far apart were this kind of evidence for continental drift.
What are fossils?
This continent is directly east (right) of the Atlantic Ocean from North America.
What is Europe?
These two teachers are Mrs. Mahinan's work best friends.
Who are Mr. Li and Ms. Flores?
The method of collecting information using your five senses.
What is an observation?
This includes living organisms and nonliving factors that interact in an environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Evidence of these cold formations found in warm regions today helped support Wegener’s theory.
What are glaciers?
This continent is located at the South Pole and was once connected to Africa, South America, Australia, and India.
What is Antarctica?
Mrs. Mahinan's height is this tall.
What is 5’2”?
The explanation you make based off your observations, using past knowledge & experiences.
What is an inference?
Scientists use this term to describe the long-term movement of continents to their current positions.
What is continental drift?
Similar ranges found on different continents supported the idea that they were once connected.
What are mountains?
These two continents fit together like puzzle pieces and are strong evidence for Pangaea.
What are South America and Africa?
This is the year Mrs. Mahinan graduated from high school.
What is 2019?