continental drift

• Alfred ____ in ____, proposed the theory of ___ _____?

  Wegener, 1912, continental drift
• Wegener was a _____?

  meteorologist
• Wegener believed that during the _____ _____, about ___ million years ago, a large mass continent existed, called _____?

  Carboniferous period, 250, Pangaea
• Wegener's theory of ___ ___ was ____ by many ____ _____?

  continental drift, rejected, academic geologists
• many academic geologists preferred their _____ _____ _____?

  fixed earth paradigm
• Wegener believed that ____ split up into two further continents named ____ and ______?

  Pangaea, Gondwana, Laurasia
• he believed that this process of ___ ____ still happens to this day, forming what we know as the ___ _ ______?

  drifting plates, earth's 7 plates