CONTINETAL dRIFT

1 The theory of continental drift
By Alfred Wegener
2evidence of continental dirft
3 Scientists reject Wegener
theory

The Theory
In 1910 a German
meteorologist Alfred Wegener
proposed that at one time all of the
continents joined together to make
up a single landmass and that they
drifted apart.

Wegener called this theory
Continental Drift. Wegener named
large landmass that existed 300
million year ago Pangaea (all
lands) and that over tens of million
of year it break apart.
Evidence
As Wegener ...