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It wasn't three continents it was all of them.
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Describe continental drift theory?
continents move about as plates of crust and upper mantle, on more mobile layer of asthenophere in the mantle. Movement driven by mantle convection and isostasy. Bumps between continents = mountain chains bump continental with oceanic = island arc vocanoes and subduction of oceanic plate
Who came up with Pangaea?
A young german scientist named Alfred Wegener came up with it.Alfred Wegener of Germany.Wegener pronounced Veg-ner.He died in Iceland trying to prove his theory and is now frozen in a glacier
What is the value of a Satinwood decanter made by LeRoy Neiman?
The LeRoy Neiman commemorative decanters of Satinwood blended whiskey from 1979 came in three versions - basketball, baseball, and football. All three, in mint condition, never opened, and sold together may be worth $500-$700. For one of the three, the value is probably closer to around $100.
What do you call the lines of lead that hold a staine glass windows together?
Came.
What is the evidence missing from Alfred Wegener's continental drift theory?
The only evidence that Alfred Wegener did not have was the mechanism that drove the Continental Drift, he had evidence to support that the continents were once joined together, but did not have the means to postulate how the continents had actually moved to their present positions. He did however postulate the theory of a "layered Earth" consisting of a rigid surface (continents) upon a liquid/plastic like substance (mantle) and that if pressure was exerted on the surface layer, it would move thus, and if the pressure was removed the surface would return to its original state. It was only until c. 1890, when the Geophysicist Arthur Holmes came up with the theory of convection currents in the mantle being responsible for Continental Drift.
What period did the continents move together to form Pangaea?
Pangaea came together over a period of time spanning the Carboniferous and Permian periods. It broke up mostly during the Jurassic period.
How do the tectonic plates differ from the time in Pangaea?
Tectonic Plates seperate what are now called Continents. Pangea was a time when all of the continents were together. The prediction came when scientist realized that Africa and South America fit together very well.
What means all lands?
In my 7th grade science class I have learned that All Lands means Pangaea in Latin. Alfred Wegener came up with that name because he was studying the Continental Drift and he decided to name all of the continents Pangaea when they were once together over 200 million years ago.
What is 7 continents that came from Pangaea?
they are Asia, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.
Pangaea was an ancient supercontinent made up of?
It was made up of our land masses today but continental drift came and moved the continents
How did geographers know that the first landmass on earth was called Pangaea?
Pangaea was not the first land mass It formed when the continents came together about 300 million years ago. Scientists know that there was once a single landmass based on evidence from ancient climates, fossils, rock formations found across oceans, and the behavior of tectonic plates. Scientists came up with the name Pangaea, which means "all land" in Greek, they did not discover it. Back when the continent we call Pangaea existed there were no people and thus no names.
What is pangaea and what caused pangaea to separate?
Pangea was a huge landmass made of all the continents today. Tectonic plates in the Earth moved, causing it to split apart.
How did wegner stummble upon the matching continents that formed pangaea?
Alfred Wegener was looking at maps once, (as he was a weatherman) and found the edges of each continents fit together like a puzzle. He researched it, and then came up with the theory of Continental Drift. The people did not accept his theory, and asked what made the continents move. He thought that that was not his problem, but the people of the world's problem.
How was Pangea formed?
some scientists are starting to think that the earth was once separated and then over millions of years the continents came together as one forming Pangaea which is the Latin root meaning and i quote "all earth." when i was in fifth grade we learned about Pangaea and it happens to be the mantel that formed Pangaea! the mantel moves like an ocean current and the crust (the land part of earth) floats on it so that is how Pangaea formed i hope my answer helped you understand it a little bit better!! :)
Who came up with the Pangaea?
Alfred Wegener came up with the name Pangaea which means "all land".
Who came up with the name Pangaea?
Alfred Wegener came up with the name Pangaea which means "all land".
How did Laurasia and Gondwanaland form pangaea?
They did not form Pangaea. Pangaea came first and then broke into two pieces: Laurasia and Godwanaland!
