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| pangea definitions | |||
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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | large supercontinent that existed 250 million years ago | 14 sets | |
| 2 | the super continent where all the continents were once joined | 8 sets | |
| 3 | (plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the triassic period when it split into laurasia and gondwanaland | 6 sets | |
| 4 | supercontinent | 6 sets | |
| 5 | a super continent | 5 sets | |
| 6 | a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the triassic period when it split into laurasia and gondwanaland | 3 sets | |
| 7 | all lands combined into one supercontinent -result of continental drift | 3 sets | |
| 8 | the name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents | 3 sets | |
| 9 | the name of the supercontinent on earth | 3 sets | |
| 10 | the super continent | 3 sets | |
| 11 | super continent | 3 sets | |
| 12 | a huge supercontinent that existed millions of years ago | 2 sets | |
| 13 | paleozoic supercontinent; the first land plants and animals evolved on it. | 2 sets | |
| 14 | ancient supercontinent where all the continents were once joined, it began breaking up about 200 million years ago | 2 sets | |
| 15 | what was the land mass of all the continents stuck together called? | 2 sets | |
| 16 | super continent that existed 225 million years ago | 2 sets | |
| 17 | one continent in ancient times | 1 set | |
| 18 | the name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 mil. years ago and gave rise to today's continents. | 1 set | |
| 19 | the supercontinent that formed 300 million years ago and began to break up 250 million years ago | 1 set | |
| 20 | a single land mass that included all continents | 1 set | |
| 21 | the name of a single landmass that broke appart 200 million years agoand gave tise to continents | 1 set | |
| 22 | a huge landmass consisting of almost all the continental land on the earth which then divided and slowly became the continents we know today. | 1 set | |
| 23 | one super continent composed of all 7 continents of today put together into one. | 1 set | |
| 24 | asdf | 1 set | |
| 25 | a landmass which consisted of all the continents before they broke apart hundreds of millions of years ago | 1 set | |
| 26 | the beginning of continents, one single continent | 1 set | |
| 27 | the single giant landmass that existed more than 200 million years ago that gave rise to the present-day continents | 1 set | |
| 28 | one large land mass from where all the continents broke apart | 1 set | |
| 29 | a hypothetical super continent that included all the landmasses on earth | 1 set | |
| 30 | a hypothetical super continent that included all of the land masses on earth | 1 set | |
| 31 | a theoretical, huge land mass that once, hundreds of millions of years ago, included all the continents. | 1 set | |
| 32 | a super continent theexisted long ago | 1 set | |
| 33 | the super contient that formed 300 million years ago and began to brek up 250 million years ago | 1 set | |
| 34 | single super continent | 1 set | |
| 35 | assembled by multiple episodes of continent-continent collision. this collision created the appalachian and caledonide mountain chains. began to break up ~230 million years ago. the breakup created new mid-ocean ridges that generated new oceans, the atlantic being one of these new oceans. | 1 set | |
| 36 | a hypothesis by alfred wegener, all the continents formed one land mass, or a "supercontinent" | 1 set | |
| 37 | the formation to cause deserts expand in the tropics | 1 set | |
| 38 | according to the theory ,this was a supercontinent that contained all of earthsland about 225 million years ago | 1 set | |
| 39 | according to theory, this was a "supercontinent" that contained all of earth's land about 225 million years ago | 1 set | |
| 40 | one single land mass that broke up into large pieces which have since drifted apart. means all earth. | 1 set | |