Pangea I

Pangaea means

• Continent

• Super Continent

• All Lands

• All the Earth

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What is a Continent

• A large land Mass

• A cloud

• The earth

what is the theory that the continents fit together

• Puzzle peaces

• glacier

• fossil

Alfred Wegener thought which 2 continents looked like puzzle pieces that could fit together?

• Antarctica and Asia

• South America and Africa

• South America and Australia

• Africa and Pangaea

What is represented by the picture? 

• Sea-floor spreading
• Pangea
• How the continents are arranged today
• Volcanoes

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What was Pangaea?

• It was a supercontinent, made of all of the landmasses on Earth.

• It was 2 separate landmasses, one on the Northern Hemisphere and one on the Southern Hemisphere.

• It was a supercontinent made of 3 landmasses

• It was the name of an ancient organism

What are two pieces of evidence used to support the theory of continental drift?

• Fossils and Pangaea

• South America and Rocks

• Rocks and Fossils

• Fossils and Africa

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What surrounded Pangaea?

• The Indian Ocean

• Panthalassa

• The Atlantic Ocean

• The Pacific Ocean

What does Pangaea mean in Greek?

• All the land

• Earth

• Supercontinent

• All the Earth

Fill in the blank:

Wegener proposed that the supercontinent began to break apart _____________ years ago and form the present landmass

• 200 million

• 20 million

• 150 million years

• 300 million years

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