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Pangea was a huge landmass made of all the continents today. Tectonic plates in the Earth moved, causing it to split apart.

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pangea was formed because all the tectonic plates came together and eventually little by little they shifted in different directions and became what you see today

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What caused pangaea to separate?

Plate Tectonics. Plate Tectonics are the sub-layers that lie underneath the Earth's surface. They can rub against together, smash together, or pull away from each other. This is what caused Pangaea to separate.


What caused pangaea to separte?

Continental Drift caused pangaea to seperate.


What is a supercontinent that continued to separate?

pangaea


What did Pangaea separate into?

Laurasia and Gondwana -finncarls


What caused pangaea?

Pangea was the original landmass of Earth so it was probably formed when Earth formed.


How did Pangaea separate?

Pangaea separated due to a shift of the tectonic plates, causing the seven continents to form. Geological activity caused the granite crust to separate at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge causing a continental cataclysm that caused the continents to move away from the Ridge toward the opposing side of each continents respective tectonic plates at incredible speeds, forming the mountain ranges.


What caused Pangaea or Pangaea?

The creation of Pangaea was due to plate tectonics which causes continents to grow closer at times, and further apart at others.


Did pangaea separate into four continents?

No it separated into 3 continents


When did Pangaea start to separate?

About 235 million years ago.


Did the tectonic plates separate Pangaea?

The plate tectonics are the mechanisms that started to drift Pangaea (super continent) into separate continents 200billion years ago into the continents we have today. :D


What happen to the pangaea?

The plate boundaries underneath started the separate Pangaea into seven different continents as well as seven different plates


What are the two continents that pangaea separate into?

Pangaea broke up into Gondwanaland and Laurasia over 200 million years ago.