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Continental Drift
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What is the name of the process that breaks continents apart?
Plate tectonics. Sub layers called tectonic plates lie underneath continents move, shift, and grind against or away from each other. The actual process of pulling apart is called diverging. The super-continent Pangaea is an example of a continent that was pulled apart. First it was pulled apart into two continents that are called Laurasia and Gondwana and then was pulled farther apart into the world that we see today.
What is it called when all of the molecules of an acid break apart in water?
This is a strong acid.
What process can break rocks apart?
erosion can break rocks apart, weathering can also break rocks apart
When water and ice chemical and and even plants break rocks apart into smaller pieces it is called what?
It is called weathering.
Is it true that during the Mesozoic era pieces of moving land called plates broke apart and formed several new continents?
yes
When continents break apart into separate land masses is called what?
Continental Drift
When continents break apart into separate land masses is called?
continental drift
When continents break apart into separate land masses it is called?
continental drift
How did the seven continents break apart?
Its the whole idea of "continental drift." In this process tectonics plates spread apart making the continents drift.
How long ago did the continents break apart?
2 million years
What made the continents break apart and continue to move?
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Is the super continent that began to break apart about 225 million years ago called Antarctica?
No. Antarctica is one of the modern continents. The continent the broke up in the Mesozoic was called Pangaea.
What theory that continents move apart form each other?
The action of continents drifting apart from each other is called, "Continental Drift". It is no longer a theory, as it has been proven to be so. Of course, as certain continents move apart from each other, they also are moving closer to other continents.
What is the process that pulls apart continents?
Plate tectonics. Sub layers called tectonic plates lie underneath continents move, shift, and grind against or away from each other. The actual process of pulling apart is called diverging. The super-continent Pangaea is an example of a continent that was pulled apart. First it was pulled apart into two continents that are called Laurasia and Gondwana and then was pulled farther apart into the world that we see today.
What are regions where the continents or the sea floor are pulling apart called?
rift zones
One large land mass that broke apart into continents?
You are thinking of Pangaea. The supercontinent that existed some 180 million years ago, before the continents started to break apart. through the process of seafloor spreading the continent fell apart and is now the coutnrys we have today.
The theory that continents drift apart in the past and continue to do so today is called?
Pangaea
