Yes, they were. The combination of the continents was called Pangaea.
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.
The theory of continental drift did originate in the 1930s. Continental drift asserts that the continents were once a single landmass called Pangaea that drifted apart over time.
It wasn't three continents it was all of them.
That there was once a super continent called Pangaea huge land mass was broken into continents that drifted apart. The theory also suggests that the earth is made up of 7 gigantic shifting slabs of the earth's crust. This disproved the more popular (at the time) "raisin" theorem
because it doesn't show all of Antarctica which is one of the 7 continents
a continental theory
Alfred Wegener.
The giant landmass that once contained all of the continents is called Pangaea.
All continents have landmasses that narrow. In fact, all continents are wider in the north than in the south. It is unknown why.
Australia and Antartica are the two continents entirely within the southern hemisphere.
Pangea refers to one land mass made up of all the modern continents.
It is actually the name of the super continent - when all the continents were one landmass.
Australia
Alfred Wegener.
Asia has the largest landmass of the seven continents.
The name given to the landmass when all continents were together is Pangaea. It is a supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago before breaking apart into the continents we know today.
South America. i need two continents.