Question

There are two continents with an ocean between them. They have very different plants and animals on them now. However, Dr. Nwosu found fossils of the same type of organism on both continents; this type of organism lived in the same place millions of years ago. Dr. Nwosu is using the fossils as evidence to argue that these continents used to be touching. How could the continents have gotten so far apart, and about how long did it take for this to happen?

Answer 1

It's should have take more than 2500mn years. This is due to the different calamities and spin of earth too and thus this separation of landscapes happened!

Step-by-step explanation:

The continents could have gotten so far because of plate tectonic movement. We know that the plates are always moving so if these plates were very active then it would have caused supercontinent pangea to drift apart. This process must have taken more than a million years to happen.