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Vocabulary

 * Pangaea**: Means "all lands," a super continent the existed 300 million years ago.
 * Continental Drift**: Continents slowly moved over earth's surface, Wegener's idea.
 * Fossil**: Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock.

Summary

 * Africa and South America look like they fit

The theory of Continental Drift

 * 1910/ Wegener
 * hypothesis of single landmass/pangea
 * supported ideas wih the study of landforms, fossils, and climate
 * evidence from landforms
 * used mountains from Africa and South America
 * evidence from fossils
 * coal fields, common fossils found on distant continents
 * evidence from climate
 * continents have very different climates from millions of years ago

Scientists Reject Wegener's Theory

 * couldn't prove how continents drifted