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Vocabulary

 * Continental drift**: Alfred Wegener's theory that the continents were once connected and broke apart and floated where they are today.
 * Fossil**: A trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock.
 * Pangaea**: The continent that was made of all the continents.

Continental Drift:

 * once super continent called pangaea
 * evidence: landforms, fossils, and climate

Landforms:

 * land fits like a puzzle
 * mountain ranges and fields line up and fit

Fossils:

 * Animals that lived in one part of Pangaea lived in another part of Pangaea
 * Continents split leaving the two fossils in two different continents
 * animals like mesosaurus and lystrosaurus
 * also Glossopteris fossil found in Africa, South America, Australia, India, and Antarctica

Climate:

 * Found Plant fossils that live in hot places in a cold area
 * in island Spitsbergen (now very cold) scientists found warm climate living plants
 * Spitsbergen was near the equator
 * Scientists found that Antarctica once had glaciers.

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