UNIVERSE
PLANETARY INTERIORS
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Question
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Pangaea
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Laurasia
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Gondwana
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -From about 300-200 million years ago (late Paleozoic Era until the very late Triassic ), the continent we now know as North America was contiguous with Africa, South America, and Europe. They all existed as a single continent called Pangea.
Detailed explanation-2: -About 200 million years ago Pangaea broke into two new continents Laurasia and Gondwanaland. Laurasia was made of the present day continents of North America (Greenland), Europe, and Asia. Gondwanaland was made of the present day continents of Antarctica, Australia, South America.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1912 Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) noticed the same thing and proposed that the continents were once compressed into a single protocontinent which he called Pangaea (meaning “all lands"), and over time they have drifted apart into their current distribution.