Match the following. Match the items in the left column to the items in the right column. 1. continental drift
2. Glossopteris
3. Mesosaurus
small, extinct land reptile whose
fossil remains have been found in
western Africa and eastern South
America
meaning all lands, name of the
supercontinent that is theorized to have
contained all of the current continents in
a single landmass
ancient, extinct plant species found
on the continents of South America,
Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica
meaning all seas, name of the
single, large ocean that surrounded
Pangaea
process by which the Earth's
lithospheric plates pull apart from each
other, creating gaps that are filled with
magma from the asthenosphere
theory proposed by Alfred
Wegener that the continents once
formed a single supercontinent that
broke up and drifted apart
4. Pangaea
5. Panthalassa
6. seafloor spreading