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Wegener hypothesised that the super continents of pangea broke up into two blocks – 1) Laurensia2) Gondwana.It took millions of years for the continents to reach the present shapes and positions on the globe.1) Laurensia : North America, Greenland, and all of the Eurasia north of Indian sub continent. 2) Gondwana : South America, Africa, Madagascar, India, Arabia, Malaysia, East Indies, Australia and Antartica. Based on the above information given – answer the following questions. a) Write any two land masses of present Asian continent which were formed from Gondwana? b) From which block was the present Europe continent formed? |
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Answer» a) India, Arabia, Malaysia, East Indies. b) The present Europe continent was formed from Laurensia block. |
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