In 1910, Alfred Wegener, a German scientist, became curious about why some continents look like they could fit together. Wegener's hypothesis was that all the continents were once joined together in a single landmass he named Pangaea. His idea was that the continents slowly moved over the Earth's surface. This became known as continental drift.
Wegener said this supercontinent, Pangaea, was joined together about 300 million years ago. Over tens of millions of years, Pangaea began to break apart, and the pieces of Pangaea slowly moved to their present locations. These pieces became the continents as formed today.
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