Continental+Drift+Theory

Continental Drift Theory  The father of this theory is Alfred Wegener. He believed that all the continents were once all together. He did not have mechanism to prove his theory, but he did have evidence. He believed that the continents were a huge continent called Pangea. The continents drifted apart because of the plate tectonics. Some evidence that he had was that all the continents have similar climates, different from what they have now. He looked at fossils, which were scattered in different continents. He also looked at leaf fossils, which were in all the continents. Also, he looked at mountain ranges that end in on continent and start again in another. When you put together the continents, they fit as puzzle pieces. Unfortunately, Wegener died before his theory was true. The mechanism that was missing was the mid-ocean ridge, or sea floor spreading.

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