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The rock layers and mountain ranges in some continents lie up and match perfectly together. They have a same type of minerals and same age.

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Appalachian Mountain

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Alfred Lothar Wegener was born on the 1st day of November year of 1880. He was a German meteorologist who studied the weather as well as the atmoshphere.

He was an expert when it comes to the weather and atmosphere of Polar Regions which are Arctic, Antartic & Tundra.

Wegener is the first person who use a balloon to study the weather and atmoshpere.

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The Continental Drift Theory is associated with Alfred Wegener. In his 1915 publication, "The Origin of Continents and Oceans", he presented a broad hypothesis that the continents were once joined together in a single supercontinent called Pangaea.

According to him, Pangaea began breaking apart about 200 million years ago, and the fragments drifted to their current positions. From the word itself "drift" which means be carried slowly by a current air or water.

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As it says on the Continental Drift Theory, the Pangae began breaking apart and it formed two (2) continents which are the Laurasia in the Northern Hemisphere and Gondwanaland on the Southern Hemisphere.

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Laurasia, ancient continental mass in the Northern Hemisphere that included North America, Europe, and Asia.

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Gondwana, ancient supercontinent in Souther Hemisphere that incorporated present-day South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica.

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In modern world, we also have now a seven continents which are the largest is Asia, followed by Africa, North America, South America, Antartica, Europe and the smallest is Australia.

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EVIDENCE NUMBER 1

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EVIDENCE NUMBER 2

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EVIDENCE NUMBER 3

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Based on Wegener, this is the idea of continents fitting together like a jigsaw puzzle pieces.

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The coaslines of South America and Africa seem to fit together like puzzle pieces.

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Identical fossils of ancient plants and animals have been found on continents now separated by vast oceans, indicating they were once connected.

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Fossil of Mesosaurus - a fresh water lizard

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One piece of evidence Wegener provided was paleoclimatic indicators that link South America and Africa. He noted that glacial, tropical rain forests, and dessert deposits were aligned when the continents were placed together.

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Fossil of Glossopteris

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Cadelonian Mountain

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Coal Depossits

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Glacial Marks/Striations

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Wegener's body was discovered by his brother, Kurt, in May 1931. He was buried in a pyramid-shaped mausoleum in the ice and snow. Despite the tragic circumstances of his death, Wegener's legacy lives on. His theory of continental drift, initially met with doubt, was eventually accepted as part of the larger theory of plate tectonics, revolutionizing our understanding of Earth's dynamic processes.

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EVIDENCE NUMBER 4

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To sum it up, the continental drift theory, proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, suggests that Earth's continents were once joined in a supercontinent called Pangaea before breaking apart and drifting to their current positions over millions of years.

Evidence supporting this theory includes matching coastlines, similar geological formations, identical fossils found on distant continents, and matching mountain ranges.

While initially met with skepticism, the theory was later integrated into the broader framework of plate tectonics, which explains the movement of Earth's lithospheric plates on the semi-fluid asthenosphere.

Continental drift and plate tectonics have revolutionized our understanding of Earth's dynamic processes, explaining the formation of ocean basins, the distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes, and the evolution of Earth's surface over geological time.