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The Jurassic Period is when Pangea began rifting apart. This is when it split into two smaller continents: Gondwanaland and Laurasia.
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What is happening geologically in the Jurassic period?
it split into two continents
What continent did the organisms from the Jurassic period live?
During the Jurassic, all of the modern continents existed; Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia, and Antarctica. Organisms lived on all of these continents.
Have continents always been in their current positions?
No
How do the positions or the continents today compare with their positions 220 million years ago?
closer
What force caused the movement of the continents from one supper continents to their positions?
The convection forces of plate tectonics.
The continents assumed their current positions during the era?
Mesozoic
Are the continents and oceans always been in the same positions they are today?
No
What era did continents assume their current positions?
Mesozoic Era
How do the positions of the plates affect the positions of the continents?
Continents are on primary tectonic plates. So any movement of a particular plate or position of a particular plate will affect the position of the corresponding continent.
True or false the continents may not have drifted slowly into their present positions?
Through the passage of time, the continents have gradually moved across the earth's surface into their present positions. This is called the continental drift.
What are sizes shapes and positions of the continents changed by?
lithospheric plate motion.
What is drifted to their present positions when land mass broke apart?
continents
