what evidence is there to show that continents used to be together?

Question

what evidence is there to show that continents used to be together? please help!!!

Answer 1

the shapes of the continents look like a jigsaw puzzle, and some of them share the same kind of land animals

Answer 2

The obvious common ancestors of organisms on both the New and Old Worlds, the shape of the continents, our understanding of plate tectonics, and the fact that we have data showing that the continents are constantly moving all point towards this theory. It has basically been proved, but the politically correct term "theory" has been applied to it as there is still the infinitesimal possibility that it is not true. It is similar to the "Theory" of Evolution and the Big Bang "Theory" in this way. Anyone who is educated accepts these as true. I am only fifteen, yet the fact that the majority of people have a lower understanding of basic science then I do is appaling.

Answer 3

It is being tracked that Earth's crust is constantly moving, both vertically and horizontally, at rates of up to several inches a year. So we know it had to of been moving one way or another over billions of years.

Just looking at a map you can see which contitents fit together.

One of the main forms of evidence of contitental drift is shown through fossils of plants and animals. Where the continents once fit together, you will find the exact same types of fossils.

Geologists have also proven continental drift through striation of glaciers.

And if all that isn't enough to convince a person... matching belts of rocks in Africa and South America taht are the same type. The belts then match when the end of the continents are joined.

Answer 4

Look at a globe. You can see how S. America would fit into Africa; Australia snuggles up next to SE Asia, etc. The anomalies are formations such as Hawaii which is still being formed by undersea volcanoes.

More than that, there is evidence in the types of rocks that each continent shares with another area.

I've seen a kinetic exhibit in a museum that begins with one land mass and breaks it up into what we have today. Continental drift is a fact.

Answer 5

yeah the shapes and also there would be a species in one place that is also found some where far away. the only explanation is that the continents move.

Answer 6

just look at the map

http://web.mit.edu/kenta/www/one/world-map.png
i know thats not actually evidence but u can see how they were formed when they split apart..

scientists are still trying to figure out how sum of the places were formed..like underwater there is a sea floor..how could they be together with the floor there?..

id say its been sliding sumwhere along the sea walls when theres a tsunami or underwater earthquake but thats just my opinion

Answer 7

THE SHAPES OF THE CONTINENTS AND SOME ANIMALS THAT ARE NATIVE TO MORE THAN ONE CONTINENT.

Answer 8

Just look at the wetsern coast of africa and the eastern coast of south america. Now don't those two look lke they could fit together.

Answer 9

the shapes of the land.. animals that migrated to other areas.... the depth of the ocean around where the land used to be.

Answer 10

Somethings gotta be holding the earth together. My bet's its LAND.