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Q: What happened to earth when it's continents shifted?
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What happened to the earth's continents during the Permian period?

What happened to the earth's continents during Permian Period is Pangea, Pangea is when the used to be one big super continent broke apart created our separate continents today.


What happened to earths continents during Permian period?

What happened to the earth's continents during permian period is pangea


What is one intresting fact about Earth?

When the Earth was formed ,It only had one huge continent called pangea. A thousand years later the continents slowly shifted and made seven/7 different continents


What is the important of pangaea?

It is the theory that continents used to be formed together in one large continent, and that as the plates shifted and moved apart, continental drift happened.


What mechanisms created and shifted the continents?

Plate tectonics


How did continental drift happen?

Continental Drift happened, when the tectonic plates in the earth shifted, and pushed the lithosphere up, causing our continents to split.


What happened to the continents that made up pangea after it started to break up?

The movements of tectonic plates had moved and shifted the continents in different regions and climates which makes a continent wet dry arid desert mild and etc


What did Alfred wegener think had happened to his supercontinent?

The Earth's plates shifted over millions of years and Pangaea OS changed into the continents we know today as Africa,Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe,North America, South America


What happened to the joined continents?

They were spread apart over a period of time when the earth's crust was moving.


What was the biggest earthquake struck on earth?

it probably happened during dinosaur periods when the continents split apart


If a star is moving toward Earth it is?

blue shifted


What did Alexander du toit discover?

Continental Drift and how the continents shifted over time