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Continental drift is the idea that Wegener created, that all the continents were once a single landmass which he called Pangaea, and they have since drifted apart.
The Pangaea theory or the Expanding Earth theory posits that the Earth originally had one supercontinent that slowly divided. Pangaea is the name of the supercontinent.
Pangaea
Wegener called the whole land mass of land "Pangaea".not too sure but i think it means entire Earth . They were all at the southern hemisphere and then drifted away and finally came to the place hwere they currently are , this is Wegener's continental drift theory .
the supercontinent pangaea
The process that broke up Pangaea is known as continental drift. This theory states that the Earth's continents were once joined together as one supercontinent and have since drifted apart to their current positions.
The theory of Pangaea is called the continental drift theory. It proposes that Earth's continents were once joined together in a single large landmass that later broke apart and drifted into their current positions.
Yes, millions of years ago, the 7 continents were part of a supercontinent called Pangaea. Over time, the continents drifted apart due to plate tectonics, creating the separate landmasses we see today.
Pangaea
The land mass that made up all the continents is called Pangaea. It was a supercontinent that existed millions of years ago before the continents drifted apart to their current positions.
Continental drift is the idea that Wegener created, that all the continents were once a single landmass which he called Pangaea, and they have since drifted apart.
No, the supercontinent that began to break apart about 225 million years ago was called Pangaea. Antarctica was part of Pangaea before the continents drifted into their current positions.
A super continent called Pangaea.
Alfred Wegener believed that all of the continents were originally part of a single supercontinent called Pangaea, which existed about 300 million years ago. He suggested that over time, the continents drifted apart to their current positions through a process he called continental drift.
Yes, about 335 million years ago, all the continents were joined together in a single landmass called Pangaea. This supercontinent eventually broke apart and drifted to their present positions through the process of plate tectonics.
The process of continents separating from Pangaea is called continental drift. This movement of the Earth's continents is driven by the motion of tectonic plates beneath the Earth's surface.
Yes, the continents were once part of a supercontinent called Pangaea, which existed about 335 million years ago. Over time, Pangaea broke apart and the pieces drifted to their current positions, forming the continents we see today.