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=Chapter 1.3=

Vocabulary:

 * Pangaea:** Latin: "all lands"; super-continent that existed three hundred million years ago
 * Continental Drift:** the movement of the continents over time
 * Fossil:** trace of an organism that has been preserved in rock

Outline

 * Drifting Continents**
 * **Summary:** Africa and South America look like they fit together
 * **Theory of Continetal Drift**
 * **1910/Wegener**
 * hypotheses of single land mass/Pangaea
 * supported ideas with the study of fossils, landforms, and climate
 * **Evidence from Landforms**
 * mountains and coal fields
 * **Evidence from fossils**
 * reptiles
 * a specific fern
 * **Evidence from climate**
 * African rock shows glacial denting
 * **Scientists Reject Wegener's Theory**
 * couldn't prove why the continents moved