Wegener noticed several things about the land masses on the Earth. The first being that some land masses are shaped like the pieces of a jigsaw, Africa's West coast mirroring South America's East coast for example. He looked at the rock layers in these countries and found that the rock layers were the same too. He then looked at the fossils found in the rock and found that they were the same early on in the fossil record but later changed and became more and more different. (He knew that the animals found in these countries were different in the present day.) He was intrigued as his findings would mean that the landmasses were once joined together and had later split apart into there present locations. He started to look for the fossils of tropical climate animals and plants in present day cold climate latitudes and found them. He concluded this was evidence that the land masses had moved over time.
His ideas were not well received as there was no clear way whole continents could move. The science community scoffed at his ideas as it was logically ridiculous that whole continents could move without some huge energy source to drive it. That was until the 1960's and the discovery of the mid-Atlantic ridge a series of volcanoes under the sea which are spewing out new rock a phenomenon known as ocean floor spreading. The movement of the continents is due to convection currents in the mantle driven by nuclear fusion reactions which were unheard of in Wegener's time.
Because scientists have found fossils of the same animals and plants on two different continents, for example, Africa and South America. Today those continents have two, very different climates in which an animal couldn't have survived in both. But if the continents were connected, then their climates would be the same :)
There are none. The Pangaea theory is based on lies. Cut out a world map and you will know what i am taking about. They don't fit! It was made up and it is pure amagenation. They tell you that they find the same fossiles on both sides but they don't tell you that the foosiles are found all over the world...
There are 4 supporting pieces of evidence to the Pangea Theory.
They are:
1)Continental Coastlines Appearing to fit together,
2)Fossil Distribution,
3)Distinctive Rock Strata
4)Coal Distribution.
(SOURCE----http://library.thinkquest.org/17701/high/pangaea/index.html)
5) Also you can go to the wikipedia article.
All the continents fit together perfectly, the similarities of fossils on separate continents, and the mountain ranges of different continents line up when the continents are placed together like a puzzle
All of the Continents fit together like a puzzle, some same fossils were found in similar areas and there were deserts in places like Antarctica and others where it is cold.
every continent if put together forms a giant puzzel and the same species of plants and animals were found spread out among the coninent
The continents' shapes fit together well, and some continents have the same fossils.
they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle
booglishullisj
Pangaea implies at some part in the Earth's evolution, probably before the rise of mammals and intelligent life ( Man) there was one major world continent that since has split up into the present seven. As life of intelligent type did not exist at the time, there is no way fossils can be dragged in to prove things one way or the other, though it does have a relative bearing on Atlantis and Atlantean studies.
The preponderance of physical evidence supports the concept that all the continents were once united in a single land mass. This makes Pangaea more of a fact than a belief.
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Plate tectonics and Pangaea you get evidence from ancient climate zones, land features, and fossils
Plate tectonics led to the theory of Pangaea.
Plate tectonics led to the theory of Pangaea.
The three pieces of evidence used to support the idea of Pangea include the shape of the continents, fossil records, and geographical markers. Pangea was the single land mass which broken into numerous pieces to create the Earth as it is today.
Continental Fit, Fossil Evidence and Sea floor Spreading. I just did this in science a month ago. :)
the modern theory is that all the continents used to be connected (Pangaea). The evidence is that the coastal boundaries fit together like a puzzle piece. another example is that the same species of animals are found on the coasts of the continents that once were touching
Egghead Egghead
You can't prove a negative with direct evidence.
fossils match up coast lines fit together coal deposits line up faults match up
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Which type of evidence was NOT used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift hypothesis human remains
The fossil of animals are evidence that support the theory of continental drift.
there was evidence of Pangaea because south America and Africa fit together as a puzzle and there are two of the same fossils are found in that continent