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What is the large ancient landmass that consisted of all the continents on earth?
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Pangaea
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What large ancient landmass that consisted of all the continents on earth?
the answer is Pangaea
What is an ancient name for earth?
The Ancient Greeks called the Earth 'Gaia'.
Where is the ancient country on earth?
What do you mean by "the"
The ancient Greeks believed that the Earth was what shape?
Flat
Who was the god of nature in ancient Egypt?
Geb was personification and god of the earth.
What is a large ancient landmass that consisted of all the continents earth?
Pangaea.
What large ancient landmass that consisted of all the continents on earth?
the answer is Pangaea
What is the large landmass that is part of earth's crust?
continents
Earth's continents were once part of a single landmass called?
Pangea
Were all continents one landmass?
Yes, they were. The combination of the continents was called Pangaea.
What large anchint landmass that consisted of all the continent on earth?
The 'supercontinent' that contained all the land-masses on earth was called Pangaea.
What term describes a large consisted all the continents on earth?
That term could be "landform".
What is the theory that the continents were once one giant landmass?
Alfred Wegner thought that all the continents used to be one giant landmass called Pangea. He said that the continents would move a little each year. The scientists didnt believe him though, but later found out that it could be true because of the plates in the earth
What is Pangaea?
Pangaea was a large, ancient landmass that was composed of all the continents joined together, also called a "supercontinent." Its name is Ancient Greek: Pan meaning entire and Gaea meaning Earth; from the Greek meaning "all lands."Pangaea is believed to have formed around 300 million years ago and began to break up around 175 million years ago. It was a roughly C-shaped landmass that had all of our modern continents together as one. The movements of the Earth's crust (continental drift) means that landmasses continue to slowly move in relation to each other and the Earth's axis.
Is the largest land mass on earth?
The largest single landmass on Earth is Afroeurasia (the continents of Africa, Europe, and Asia). It occupies 85,000,000 km2, or about 5 times the size of Russia.
How many continents is the earth divided into?
We will just go to what could be thought: 7 continents: - North America -South America -Antarctica -Africa -Europe -Asia -Australia Here the "American landmass" is counted as 2 and the "European-Asian landmass" is counted as 2 landmasses. 6 continents: - North America -South America -Antarctica -Africa -Eurasia -Australia Here the "European-Asian landmass" is counted as 1 landmass. Alternate to the 6 continents version is the one where Europe and Asia are separated and the "American landmass" is counted as 1 landmass. The American "combined" landmass is separated by a human made waterway made through a narrow strip of land. 5 continents: - America -Antarctica -Africa -Eurasia -Australia Here the "European-Asian landmass" and the "American landmass" are both counted as 1 big land mass. 4 continents: -America -Antarctica -Afro-Eurasia -Australia Here the "African-Eurasian" landmass is counted as 1. With the same argument (see 6 continents) used to combine the "American" landmass. Apparently there is another map that says all the Landmasses are so narrowly connected they could be considered as 1, the 'dymaxion map'. Well, we have given you options to choose from, so you decide which one is right.
What is the earths land masses?
Earth's landmass is the part of earth total area that is covered by land and solid mass; it occupies about 21% of earths total surface area. Earth's landmass consists of the soils, continents, rocks, vegetations, and every other landforms and structures present on the earths surface. Geographically we can say that the Earth's landmass is the areas ocupied by the crust, the lithosphere and the solid part of the biosphere.
