Students will explore how the discoveries of specific fossils, the geographic fit of the continents, ocean floor magnetic fields, young ocean rocks, and seafloor spreading provide evidence to support the theory of plate tectonics. Exciting footage from Iceland helps illustrate the power of tectonic movement. Other terminology includes: continental drift, Pangaea, tectonic plates, plate boundaries, mountain building, folding, faulting, and landforms.

Originally released by Visual Learning, 2003. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 18, 2015.

The Theory of Continental Drift (3:31); --Evidence Supporting Continental Drift (3:36); -- Theory of Plate Tectonics (1:44); -- Plates Colliding (3:28); -- Diverging and Sliding Plates (2:30); -- Land of Fire and Ice (1:30); -- Plate Tectonics: Summing Up (-8:0-53); -- Plate Tectonics: Video Quiz (2:53); -- Credits: Plate Tectonics (0:44); -- Plates (0:04); -- Convection Currents and Continental Drift (9:37);.