Wegener named the supercontinent pangaea, which means _____. "all lands" "large rock" "only land" "all seas"

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To break down the word pangaea, you can split it into "pan" and "gaea". "Pan" means whole, and "gaea" means Earth in Greek, so pangaea means "all lands".

disa [49]3 years ago

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Answer: All lands

Explanation:

Alfred Wegener in the year 1912 gave a proposition that all the continents that we see today were once compressed together into one large supercontinent/protocontinent.
He named this supercontinent as Pangea which means "all lands".
The word was derived from an ancient Greek word wherein pan = all and Gaia=land.

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