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Vocabulary
Pangaea-All lands,ot that all continents were together

Continental Drift-moving of the continents

Fossil- a trace of an ancient

Outline
===Intro=== ===Theory of Continental Drift=== 300 million years ago ===Scientists reject Wegener's theory===
 * Africa and South America look like jigsaw pieces
 * 1910 Alfred Wegener
 * Hypothesis was that the continents were once joined together
 * Evidence from Landforms
 * Mountains
 * Lined up South Africa with Argentina
 * Coalfields
 * Lined up European coalfields with North America's
 * Evidence from Fossils
 * found common dinosaur fossils &plant fossils
 * Evidence from Climate
 * current places in the world had opposite climate
 * hot places had rock scratches which indicated that glaciers were once there
 * Explained about mountains
 * lacked evidence