What was pangaea? when did it form and when did it break apart? it was
a. a large ocean basin that opened in the triassic and closed in the paleocene
b. the supercontinent that formed in the late paleozoic and broke apart in mesozoic.
c. the huge mountain range formed when africa pushed northward into europe in eocene time.
d. a large, precambrian shield area of africa and south america that broke apart early in the proterozoic

How do you think earths interior affects what is happening on the surface? 2. how do fossils support the continental drift hypothesis? 3. how does sea- floor spreading support the hypothesis of continental drift? 4.what do scientists observe when they studied the magnetic fields of rocks on the sides of mid-ocean ridges? 5. what is a tectonic plate ? 6. explain mantle convection 7.how can movements of the continents affect earths climate? 8. what occurs during drifting?