It was because of fossils that scientist found.
10cm every year =)
Continential drift. The world used to be one big supercontinent - Pangea. It cracked up and started drifting apart..if you try to put South America & Africa together, it fits just like a jigzaw puzzle..so do a lot of other continents into other landmasses.
Technically west, but the quickest way would be to head south-to-southwest, crossing over into a general north-to-northeast. Basically, you shoot straight going over Antarctica, near the south pole.
If you look at a map of the world you can see that South America and Africa used to be joined. People have discovered that the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa have the same rock type. Also there was animals that lived in South America and in Africa, people were wondering how they could of got to Africa from America without flying or swimming, they must of been able to walk across from the two countries. The Continental Drift from the plates drifted the two countries apart and that causes the world to be as it is now. When the world first begun, all the countries were joint together so you could of walked from Scotland to France, but the Continental Drift drifted all the countries apart.
before the earth looked like it does today the earth was called Pangaea. every continent was fit together like a puzzle piece. lava pulled weak pieces of land which happened to be south and north America and Australia apart and the Americas went west and Australia went south east
When all the continents were united as Pangea, the West coast of Africa was attached to the East coast of South America, and they are now far apart. So no, they are getting farther away.
Why is South America and Africa moveded apart?
The separating plates literally means, when the plates such as Africa, Europe North America, South America etc. start moving away or apart after millions of years.
Continental Drift is an old style name for Plate tectonic movement. The major continents of the world appear to drift about. It is thir underlying plate that is moving. The classic example is Africa and South America. They appear to fit together like pieces of a jig-saw, but they have drifted apart to form the Atlantic Ocean. The underlying tectonic plates of Africa and South America are actually moving. Africa northwards into Europe and South America westwards into the Pacific Ocean.
Continential drift. The world used to be one big supercontinent - Pangea. It cracked up and started drifting apart..if you try to put South America & Africa together, it fits just like a jigzaw puzzle..so do a lot of other continents into other landmasses.
its a movement of land called "continental drift" where land slowly moves apart
Yes back in the Permian Period Africa and South America were connected. The Continental Drift broke them apart. There is proof not only in geographic maps but also in fossils such as the Mesoaurus.
South America fits alongside Africa. If you look at a map and see the west coast of Africa and the east coast of South America, you can see they are like jigsaw pieces to each other, as at one time they were together, before splitting and drifting apart.
Compare a map of South America against Africa. The two fit, so have drifted apart
Technically west, but the quickest way would be to head south-to-southwest, crossing over into a general north-to-northeast. Basically, you shoot straight going over Antarctica, near the south pole.
If you look at a map of the world you can see that South America and Africa used to be joined. People have discovered that the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa have the same rock type. Also there was animals that lived in South America and in Africa, people were wondering how they could of got to Africa from America without flying or swimming, they must of been able to walk across from the two countries. The Continental Drift from the plates drifted the two countries apart and that causes the world to be as it is now. When the world first begun, all the countries were joint together so you could of walked from Scotland to France, but the Continental Drift drifted all the countries apart.
The South Atlantic has South America and Southern Africa with adjacent coasts. All of South America was colonized by Spain apart from Brazil which was colonized by Portugal. Southern Africa was colonized by various European powers including Britain, Portugal, Germany, France and Spain.
yes. because of the sea-floor spreading making Africa and South America drift apart even more