It is called Pangaea, about 245 million years ago
The supercontinent that split into today's continents is called Pangaea. It is believed to have been a single landmass around 335 million years ago before breaking apart into the continents we have today.
A map of the continents (with the exclusion of Antarctica and the inclusion of Greenland) is included in the link below and depicts how they would fit together today. They do not completely lock perfectly as their coasts have been eroded.
Wegener believed all continents had once been joined because of the similar shapes of coastlines, matching geological formations across continents, and evidence of past glaciation extending from multiple continents, suggesting they were once connected.
Yes they were all once connected together and formed the supercontinent Pangaea, Pangaea split apart over millions of years and today it has reached a point where it has been split up into 7 continents.
one big block of land
Gondwanaland is a landmass thought to have been compromised of present-day southern continents.
True. The theory of continental drift, proposed by Alfred Wegener in the early 20th century, suggests that the continents were once joined together in a single landmass called Pangaea and have since drifted apart. This theory has been supported by evidence from geology, paleontology, and plate tectonics.
Fossils of the reptile Mesosaurus have been found in South America and Africa. It probably couldn't swim between the continents. Scientists theorized that this reptile lived on both continents when they were joined. All continents were once part of a large landmass, called Pangea, that broke apart 250-million years ago.
Several actually but I think the answer you're looking for is Pangaea.
The supercontinent that split into today's continents is called Pangaea. It is believed to have been a single landmass around 335 million years ago before breaking apart into the continents we have today.
A map of the continents (with the exclusion of Antarctica and the inclusion of Greenland) is included in the link below and depicts how they would fit together today. They do not completely lock perfectly as their coasts have been eroded.
States that the continents were once a single huge landmass. This landmass broke up million years ago and the pieces drifted apart. facing edges of many continents have similar rock formations. If the continents brought togehter, the formations would match exactly (like combining South America and Africa). Fossils of the same kinds of living things have been found on different continents. Perhaps these living things were together on one landmass before it split.
Fossils of the reptile Mesosaurus have been found in South America and Africa. It probably couldn't swim between the continents. Scientists theorized that this reptile lived on both continents when they were joined. All continents were once part of a large landmass, called Pangea, that broke apart 250-million years ago.
Wegener believed all continents had once been joined because of the similar shapes of coastlines, matching geological formations across continents, and evidence of past glaciation extending from multiple continents, suggesting they were once connected.
Yes they were all once connected together and formed the supercontinent Pangaea, Pangaea split apart over millions of years and today it has reached a point where it has been split up into 7 continents.
Pangea
Pangaea. But this was just the most recent of the super-continent agglomerations. There may have been at least two previous super-continents that eventually broke up and then re-formed in a different association.