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Bookmark or Share- How did Pangaea affect life? + Example - SocraticIn general, when continents come together species diversity tends to go down and when big continents start to break up, species diversity tends to increase. When there are land bridges or connections between continents, organisms tend to wander around looking for new habitats. This tends to produce fewer species. But when there is more islands or separate land masses, this tends to produce ...
- Why is Pangaea important? - SocraticPangaea is important because it was a super continent that existed when all the continents were joined together. Now the continents are separated due to the continental drift. Under the Earth's crust, hot rock rises to the mantle. Then it separates in two directions because there is nowhere to go. Friction causes the tectonic plates to move and finally, the rock cools down and goes back to the ...
- What was the climate like on Pangaea? + Example - SocraticProbably no one single climate, but a number of different climates. Pangea covered a very large part of the globe as all of the current continents were smushed up into one big continent. This large land mass extended from nearly the south to north polar regions, thus a number of climate belts would likely have existed (see pic). The same factors that control climate today, would have been at ...
- How does plate tectonics relate to pangaea? - Socraticsee below the continents and oceans lay on giant plates of the crust that float on top of the mantle. conventional currents in the mantle are the reason for the slow, and continuous movement of plates. millions of years ago, plate tectonics brought all the continents together: pangaea.
- How does Pangaea differ from Gondwana and Laurasia?Pangaea was the original "super continent" of all land masses on Earth. Gondwana (to the South) and Laurasia (to the North) are the two first parts to separate into separate super continents. Further tectonic shifts separated those two into the final terran land masses.
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