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Alfred Wegener came up with the name Pangaea which means "all land".

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Who came up with the Pangaea?

Alfred Wegener came up with the name Pangaea which means "all land".


Who came up with the idea of Pangaea?

Alfred Wegener


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 the name of the super-continent?

Pangaea don't no


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.


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


What came after Pangaea Laurasia or Gondwanaland?

both


What is the name of the first land mass before it broke up into contenents?

Pangaea


When did Pangaea begin to break up?

when did pangaea begin to break up


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.


What was the name of the continent that existed 225 million years ago?

the name of the continent that existed 225 million years ago was pangaea


Pangaea is currency of which country?

I think Pangaea was the name of the 'supercontinent' that existed billions of years ago that eventually split up to form the continents that exist today.