Completar frases Fill in the Blanks: Drifting ContinentsVersión en línea Test your knowledge on the theory of drifting continents and plate tectonics! por Lcda. Alondra Garcia 1 evidence Pangea landmass climate landmass Wegener supercontinent continents drift 300 Alfred pulls fossil surface Wegener's continental drifted fossils mountain 1910 explanation geologists German idea In , a scientist named became curious about why some look as though they could fit together . hypothesis was that all the continents were once joined together in a single and have since apart . Wegener's idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's became known as . According to Wegener , the continents were joined together in a or single , about million years ago . Wegener called the supercontinent . Land features on the continents such as ranges and coal fields provided Wegener with for his hypothesis . He also used to support his hypothesis for continental drift . A is any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock . Wegener also used evidence of change to support his hypothesis . Wegener could not provide a satisfactory for the force that pushes or the continents . Because he could not identify the cause of continental drift , most of his time rejected his .