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What is the name of earths single continent before it spit up into the continents as they are today?
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EURASIA
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What is the hypothesis that proposed that earths continents were once joined in a single land mass?
Continental drift
How can the presence of seven continents on the earth surface be explained?
There are "7 continents" due to a combination of how plate tectonics processes have fractured the light granitic rocks that make up the continents and then smashed them back together over time, along with human perceptions (e.g. Europe and Asia are considered by human perception to be separate continents but they are a single continent of Eurasia in terms of plate tectonics processes). At various times in the past there have been as few as one continent and at other times there have been more than the current number.
How could movement of tectonic plates create another supercontinent like pangaea?
If the movement of the plates brought all the continents together again, a single continent would form. At the moment plate movements are not heading in that direction.
What is the largest land mass on the 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.
Earth's continents were once part of a single landmass called?
Pangea
What was the single super continent that existed before plate motions moved the continents to their present locations known as?
Pangaea.
How many continents does alstralea have?
Alstralea has four continents.
Which era did the continents merge into a single continent?
The continents merged into a single supercontinent known as Pangaea during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras, specifically in the late Paleozoic era around 300 million years ago. This supercontinent began to break apart during the Mesozoic era, leading to the formation of the current continents.
What do scientist call the single continent from which all the continents originated?
Pangea
What single continent split into two continents called gondwana and?
The single continent that split into two continents called Gondwana and Laurasia is Pangaea. Pangaea was a supercontinent that existed about 335-175 million years ago, before eventually breaking apart into these two landmasses which later drifted to form the continents we know today.
What did wegener hypothesize happen to the continents?
they drifted together to form a single continent
What is Asias capital cities?
Asia is a continent. Continents do not have capital cities only countries have these. The possible exception being Australia as this is considered a continent and a single country.
What is the hypothesis that proposed that earths continents were once joined in a single land mass?
Continental drift
What hypothesis states that the continents were once continents were once joined to form a single super continent?
If put together, they would fit perfectly into one huge super continent like a puzzle.
How many continents are south and North America divided into?
They are continents. Unless, because they are joined, you consider them part of a single continent, i.e. America.
All Earths land mass was located in a single continent Pangaea during which period?
Jurassic
Was earth made up of a single continent that later separated into several continents?
That is what's believed, yes. The super-continent is called Pangaea/Pangea.
