#1. during the early paleozoic era, south america, africa, australia, antarctica, india, and perhaps china comprised the vast southern continent of europe/ gondwana/ laurasia/ pangaea #2. what happened to all the continents by the close of the paleozoic? they split in half/ they fused into pangaea/ they formed gondwana/ they moved toward the poles. #3. in the early paleozoic, life was restricted to the air/ seas/ continents/ islands