Friday, April 17, 2009

~Pangea~

Pangaea
Did you know Pangaea, the old super continent, is now our seven split continents??? It was one huge land mass, that now turned into North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Antarctica and Australia. If you look carefully at the globe, you will see that the pieces of land actually fit really well together. For example, if you look at South American and Africa, they look like they could match just like puzzle pieces. It has been proved that it was once a huge continent, because on different parts of the world, fossils from different many animals have been found in totally different climates, on the parts of the continents that would have matched together. But just like how it moved apart and away a long time ago, it is still moving. The average movement of the plates is 1 cm. per year! It takes millions and millions of years to move these plates.

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