Earth Science

Kyler Correia Period-1 4-2-12 Ch. 7 Review Alfred Wegner is credited with developing the Continental Drift Hypothesis The first evidence that the Continents once fit together was that they are shaped like puzzle pieces that fit together Pangaea was a supercontinent that Wegner believed once existed. Evidence to support Wegner?s theory was that: there were ancient climate changes, fossils matched across the sea, rock types and structures match, and the continents shape seemed to fit together. The discovery of the Mesosaurus in South America and Africa supports the Continental Drift hypothesis because it shows that the Mesosaurus lived and died in the area of what once was Africa and South America and once those two continents separated the fossils and remains stayed on them.