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Vocabulary

 * Pangaea** - Means all lands - or that all continents were together. Also the name of the superconinent Wengner discovered.
 * Continental Drift** - Moving of the contients apart.
 * fossil** - a trace of and ancient orginism that have been preserved in rock.

Outline

 * ===The theory of continental drift===
 * 1910 Alfered Wegener
 * Hypothosis was that the continents were once joined together.
 * 300 million years ago.
 * ===Evidence from landforms===
 * mountains
 * lined up with South Africa and Argentina.
 * european coal fields match with the ones in North America.
 * ===Evidence from fossils===
 * Found common dinosaur fossils and plant fossils at differet places.
 * Scientists found dinosaur fossils in places now seperated by water.
 * They found fossils of the dinosaurs Mesosaurus and the Lystrosaurus.
 * They couldn't of swum that far past the ocean.
 * ===Evidence from climate===
 * Scientists found plant fossils of tropical plants in Spitsbergen.
 * Spitsbergen is now ice-covered and has a harsh, polar climate.
 * Spitsbergen must've been located close to the equator.
 * Climate was colder in South Africa 300 million years ago.
 * Deep scraches in rocks show that continental glaciers once formed in South Africa.
 * South Africa was farther to the equator and much closer to the south pole 300 millions years ago.
 * ===Scientists Reject Wegener's Theory===.
 * Wegener did not provide a theory to answer how the continents moved.

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