Pangea Research Paper

In 1596- Abraham Ortelius took note that the coastlines of the continents seemed to be too fitting together. He initiated a theory that stated that the continents were probably joined at one point in time and were torn apart between Europe and Africa. In the year of 1912, Alfred Wegener stated that the continents were once joined in a supercontinent called Pangea.

The first, would be Land features. Alfred Wegener saw how the coal fields in North America and Europe lined up, he also realized that mountain ranges in North America and Africa lined up. The second, evidence he used were the fossils. There were three types of fossils he found the first was the glossopteris a fern like plant found in Africa, South America, Australia, India, and Antarctica. The second and third were the Mesosaurus and the Lystrosaurus fossils, they were freshwater reptile fossils on continents separated by oceans. The third evidence Alfred Wegener used was, the climate zones. Alfred Wegener looked at the past of the climates and he found scratches in rocks from glaciers in South Africa. Those were the three main evidences Alfred Wegener used to prove Continental Drift

The plate tectonics theory was made by a German named Alfred Wegener. He stated that a single continent existed about 300 million years ago named Pangaea and that it split into two continents of Laurasia in the north and Gondwanaland in the south. Today’s continents were formed by further splitting of the two masses.

2. The theory of “Pangaea” exists suggesting that the continents were once nestled together into one mega-continent. The continents then spread out as drifting islands.

About 225 million years ago, according to the theory of “Pangaea,” the world was once a single supercontinent that contained all the dry land. Approximately 10 million years ago, North America was shaped by the majestic Canadian Shield. About 2 million years ago, in North America, the grand glaciers laid the land of Canada and the United States, southbound as far as from Pennsylvania all the way to the Pacific Northwest. Recently, about 135 million to 25 million years ago, four massive ranges—the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada, the Cascades, and the Coast Ranges, arose in western North America. About 35000 years ago, the ancestors of the Native Americans, the nomadic Asian hunters, first

Between 280 million and 225 million years ago, the earth’s previously separated land areas became welded into a landmass called Pangaea. About 120 million years ago, due to the continental drift, this landmass began to separate. It split the old world and the new world apart, which dividing North and South America from Eurasia and Africa. The separation lasted for million years that it fostered divergent evolution. The new world and the old world’s biological evolution followed individual paths, becoming two separate biological worlds. However, after 1492, human voyagers reversed this tendency. In October 1492, Christopher Columbus and his crew landed in Bahamas. After Columbus arrived in

Millions of years ago according to scientist the whole world was one large mass called Pangea. When this mass began to split, it divided the Americas from the Eastern World along with the people on it. This resulted in tens of thousands years apart from one another which led to different developments on each continent. After all these years though a man named Columbus’s discovers the Americas in 1492. As soon as he took

About 200 million years ago there was one big continent called Pangaea. They believed that, this landmass began to separate. They believed that the Atlantic Ocean formed, dividing Africa and Eurasia from the Americas. Over the next several million years plants and animals changed and made to separate biological worlds. It wasn’t until Christopher Columbus and his crew sailed to the Americas in October 1492, they started interacting with each other.

primates were able to migrate from Asia to North America 56 million years ago because of huge volcanic eruptions, which released an ample amount of greenhouse gases leading up to an intense period of global warming. Because of this, the vegetation of North America began to change. The cool forests turned into tropical rain forests who kept their leaves all year round so they can provide food and shelter for these primates, allowing them to migrate to North America. At About 70 million years ago, a piece of earth’s crust under the Pacific Ocean dove down under North America making it rise creating the Rocky Mountains. As the Rocky’s continued to rise, the land under the inland sea was forced up and all of the water drained into what is now

Long before the Europeans discovered the Americas, the North American region went through a lot of geological and geographic changes. Originally there was just one super large mass of land but overtime that land broke apart forming continents. Shifting and folding of the earths crust formed mountains across North America and the rest of the world. One major change that the region of North America went through was during the period of the Great Ice Age. The Great Ice Age took place 2 million years ago. During the Great Ice Age, large glaciers covered North America (along with other continents). When the glaciers disappeared 10,000 years ago they left North America new and transformed. The changes that the glaciers made were forming of lakes,

Geologists believe that between 280 million and 225 million years ago, the earth’s previously separate land areas became welded into a landmass called Pangaea. About 120 million years ago, they believe, this landmass began to separate. As this happened, the Atlantic Ocean formed, dividing the Americas from Africa and Eurasia. Over the course of the next several million years in both the Americas and in Afro-Eurasia, biological evolution followed individual paths, creating two primarily separate biological worlds. However, when Christopher Columbus and his crew made land in the Bahamas in October 1492, these two long-separated worlds were reunited. Columbus’ voyage, along with the many voyages that followed, disrupted much of the biological segregation brought about by continental drift.

It appears that through openings in continental ice sheets, (Land Bridge Theory) small populations were able to migrate south to the Americas. While many of the prehistoric remains which are found appear to not be related to present-day American Indians, the two groups did share the same region, albeit, apparently at different time periods.

who had traveled to America during the last ice age using the broad landmass, Beringia which connected North America and Asia. To solve this mystery, anthropologists came up with different theories to try and explain the differences in physical features. It is the discovery of Naia, a 12,000 to 13,000 year-old skeleton that helps them to make the connection.

Million of years ago, in the late 1400’s a continental drift caused the Old and New worlds to split apart. It broke North and South America from Eurasia and Africa. This caused a lot of different evolutions of species such as the development of rattlesnakes on one side of the Atlantic and vipers on the other. Things were exchanged such as, plants, animals, and diseases between the new and old world. After 1492 when Columbus arrived in the Caribbean on a voyage he discovered the New world.

The country I chose to do my report on is Fiji. I don’t know much about the country, but I like to drink Fiji water and I know it comes from there. I also think the name Fiji sounds pretty cool. I learned that Fiji was originally named “Viti” but when the islanders were pronouncing it, it sounded like ”Fiji”, so that is how it got recorded.