what the world be like if there was no continental drift?

Question

As in would we be as civilised as it is now, would we all speak one language ... what sorta animals would we have, would we have mountains? etc.
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Answer 1

we may be civilized as it is now. or we could have a universal language...

maybe we could have animals that are "mutants."
I mean, imagine a "catzard" (cat & lizard) or a lamblion (lam & lion).

we could still have mountains, probably...

but it would be hard for us to go swimming because we have to trod along the continent's extremes just to bathe in the sea.

it's hard to go strolling, we might get lost.

and how would that be? i mean, how many presidents should be elected? how about the election returns?

now that'd be a humongous task...
let's thank God he caused the continental drift....

He foresaw what'd happen if we were living in one rigid and compact huge continent! :P

Answer 2

Pangaea the supercontinent would be around, we would probably speak different languages still( I mean, look at Europe), Although pick up some languages, we probably would be civilised, we probably wouldn't have any mountains, did you mean related to plate tectonics? We would also probably have some war going on all the time because of the close quarters, like brother and sister.

Answer 3

If continental drift ended it would also mean that the interior of the planet had cooled significantly. This would entail an abrupt end to most volcanic activity as well.

Answer 4

Plate tectonics are so germane to the world today--from faunal crossings by land bridges to climate--that imagining our current world without it is almost impossible.

As someone else mentioned, plate tectonics couldn't function if the Earth's internal heat were dead. If that were the case, erosion would quickly (in geologic terms) reduce every continent to near sea level. I can't begin to speculate on how it would effect something as complex as evolution.