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What do you call the giant continent that once existed on Earth?
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Pangaea (Pangæa, all earth) was the latest of several supercontinents that existed during the prehistoric periods on Earth. It formed about 300 million years ago, then began to rift about 200 million years ago, creating the current continents.
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Geographers feel earth was once one big continent what call this continent?
The Continent was Called Pangaea. All the continents were one abour 245 milllion ears ago in The Mesozoic era. Hope this helps
What country is also a continent?
Australia
Why do thy call it Pangaea?
it means super continent
What do you call a person who came from the continent of Europe?
A European.
What do you call a large landmass that is smaller than a continent?
A subcontinent.
What did scientist Alfred Wagner call the large super continent that once existed?
Pangea.
What do scientists call the super continent and the ocean that existed 250 million uears ago?
The super continent was called Pangaea.
What do you call a giant drill machine that digs into the earth?
It is called a drilling rig.
Where is the worlds great diamond mine?
Great is a judgement call and you are the judge. There are diamond mines on every continent on earth, except on the Antarctic continent.
What are describing words for Antarctica?
You can call Antarctica the highest, driest, windiest, darkest, and coldest continent on earth.
What did the ancients call Antarctica?
The ancients used to call Antarctica Terra Australis, which means "Southern Land." Nobody is certain if the ancients ever saw the continent or not before the 19th century, but they had stories that such a land existed.
Geographers feel earth was once one big continent what call this continent?
The Continent was Called Pangaea. All the continents were one abour 245 milllion ears ago in The Mesozoic era. Hope this helps
What do you call the only one super continent?
The theory is that there was a super continent called Pangea, meaning 'all lands'. It existed as one large continent but later broke up into several smaller continents which drifted away from wach other, each beuibg a part of a mobile plate of the lithosphere
What do astronomers call Saturn and why?
They call it a "gas giant" planet. That's because it is mainly made of gases (including liquid hydrogen) and it's very big compared with Earth.
Which continent is call both a continent and a country?
Australia
How did the moon get where it is?
Before life existed on Earth a Mars like object collided with our planet. A big chunk of the Earth floated away from our planet due to the pressure of the collision. And that big chunk is now what we call, the Moon.
Can you call Africa as Africa Continent?
Yes, Africa is a continent, normally referred to as "the African continent"
