Continental+Drift

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= This shows how the world started as Pangea and broke up. = = Originally all of the continents were connected, but as the plates (learn about the plates on the Plate Tectonices page ) moved the contentens drifted apart. = = In the picture above you can see the where the different continents are when the were connected as on super continent, Pangea. = = Also in the video above you can see how the plates shifted to move the conitnents to where they are today. = = Alfred Wegener first proposesed Continental Drift. This Suggests that 200 million years ago there existed one large supercontinent which he called Pangea. = = =