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Scientists found fossils that were from the same dinosaur in South America, Africa, Australia, and Europe.

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Q: How did scientists found out about pangaea?
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What you found out about pangaea?

Pangaea, from the greek for Entire Earth, is the name scientists have given to the mass of all continents before they split up from tectonic movement and continental drift.


How did scienists react to pangaea?

scientists reacted differently around pangaea


Was pangaea the only supercontinent that ever existed?

Scientists believe there were several other supercontinents before Pangaea.


How many stages do scientists hypothesis there are to pangaea?

4


Was there pengea?

It is accepted by most scientists that there was a supercontinent called Pangaea.


How do science know pangaea is real?

scientists proof of pangaea is there were fosils of the same animals or dinosaurs in all 7 continents


How did geographers know that the first landmass on earth was called Pangaea?

Pangaea was not the first land mass It formed when the continents came together about 300 million years ago. Scientists know that there was once a single landmass based on evidence from ancient climates, fossils, rock formations found across oceans, and the behavior of tectonic plates. Scientists came up with the name Pangaea, which means "all land" in Greek, they did not discover it. Back when the continent we call Pangaea existed there were no people and thus no names.


Many scientists believe a giant supercontinent once existed called?

pangaea


Does the climate prove that Pangaea is real?

Actually, no. "Pangaea" was found by Alfred Wegener through the fossils of animals found in different continents.


What will happen if Pangaea reformed?

Pangaea will reform in a few million years. Scientists believe it will look like one giant landmass with a single sea in the middle.


Did the entire world once consist of a single continent?

scientists believe that it did and it was called Pangaea


Did the breakup of Pangaea have a effect on dinosaur extinction?

no, scientists have recently concluded that a asteroid killed them