Pangea

Pangea The Shifting of Pangea Have you ever noticed that a chromosome mapping of the world looks same a puzzle and the continents look like the pieces that would fit together to complete the puzzle. In 1912, Alfred Wegener, a German scientist and an adventurer, came up with a theory that the continents had once been part of a supercontinent. Wegener proposed that, over 200 million years, what he called Pangea had separated and became item-by-item pieces. Pangea means all lands in Greek, and that is what Pangea was, a very bountiful landmass when all of the continents were connected.

When Wegener first proposed this idea in 1912, multitude did not buy into this theory. One of the problems that Wegener faced was that he believed that the continents had drifted apart, solely he couldnt explain how they had drifted apart. Another problem was that there was a theory already in place called the condensing Theory. This theory stated that the Earth was once a molten ball and in the pr...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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