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Alfred Wegner was a meteorologist. He beleived that the continents move. He had four evidence. One of them was the fossils. He would see a type of fossil on the east of South America and the west of Africa. another was that when he put the pieces in (continents) together he saw that they all fit like a jigsaw puzzle.he called the super continent "Pangaea". another was the climate in areas, and another was earthquakes and volcanoes.earthquakes and volcanoes occur mostly on tectonic plates.the scientists didn't believe his theory at first and they thought he was crazy because Alfred had no idea how the continents moved and why they moved.so the scientists didn't believe him.

he called his theory"continential drift" because his theory was the the continents have moved in the past and are still moving today and will always move. Hope this was helpful!

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