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1.) What are some of the forms of evidence used to support the theory of Pangaea?

2.) Why aren't the planet's continents in the same formation as they may have once been during the time of Pangaea?


3.) Why is it important to study the theory of plate tectonics and continental drift?

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1) Alfred Wegener, in the first three decades of this century, and DuToit in the 1920s and 1930s gathered evidence that the continents had moved. They based their idea of continental drift on several lines of evidence: fit of the continents, paleoclimate indicators, truncated geologic features, and fossils.

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