Question

Evidence that the South American and African continents were once joined includes evidence from their coastlines such as ________. A. shared anthropological evidence B. identical mineral properties C. symmetrical earthquake patterns D. matching fossil distributions

Answer 1

Answer:

Evidence that the South American and African continents were once joined includes evidence from their coastlines such as D. matching fossil distributions

Explanation:

As well as linking Africa to South America, the distribution of fossils suggests that other continents were once contiguous with each other. For example the fern-like plant Glossopteris, which flourished almost 300 million years ago, is found in Antarctica, Australia and India as well as Africa and South America. This indicates that Glossopteris lived at a time when all of these continents were joined in a single super-continent, which geologists refer to as Pangaea.