Pangea Facts

1. Pangea is a:

Superearth

Supercontinent

Supermass

Superland

2. What is the name of the superocean that surrounded Pangea?

Panthalassa

Pannthalassa

Panthallassa

Pannthallassa

3. What is the name of the study that contributed to the development of continental drift theory, yielding information about Pangea, among others?

Palaeogeography

Palaleogeography

Palalleogeography

Pallaeogeography

4. Pangea existed during:

Early Paleozoic

Late Paleozolic

Late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras

Early Mesozoic

5. The first phase of break-up of Pangea began:

In the Early Cretaceous

In the Early-Middle Jurassic

In the early Cenozoic

In the late Paleozoic

6. Third major break-up drift led to:

Madagascar and India began to separate from Antarctica

India continued to move northward toward Eurasia

New Zealand, New Caledonia and the rest of Zealandia began to separate from Australia

Laurasia split when North America/Greenland (also called Laurentia) broke free from Eurasia

7. The second major phase in break-up of Pangea resulted in:

A new ocean, the North Atlantic Ocean

Formation of the southwestern Indian Ocean that would open up in the Cretaceous

Atlantica finally separated from eastern Gondwana (Antarctica, India and Australia)

Laurasia split when North America/Greenland (also called Laurentia) broke free from Eurasia

8. Its distribution of continental mass was in which hemisphere?

East

West

North

South

9. What is classified as the earliest known landmass?

Pangea

Ur

Rodinia

Congo

10. What is the name of the first confirmed supercontinent?

Rodinia

Pangea

Atlantica

Gondwana