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1.3 Drifting Continents
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 * Vocabulary**

Pangaea- means "all lands"; a super continent (made of all continents) that existed 300 million years ago Continental Drift- the movement of continents over time Fossil- any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock Outline


 * The Theory of the Continental Drift


 * In 1910, Alfred Wegener got the idea of the continental drift
 * He supported his ideas with evidence of climate, fossils, and landforms
 * Evidence from Landforms


 * In South Africa, a mountain range lines up with a mountain range in Argentina
 * Evidence from Fossils


 * Common fossils were found on distant continents
 * Evidence from Climate


 * Continents today, have very different climate from millions of years ago
 * Scientists reject Wegener's Theory


 * Wegener could not explain the pushes and pulls of the plates