• Question: Apparently by a theory, overtime South America will travel to Africa, is that true and what do u think???

    Asked by anon-208645 to Tori, Titus, Stuart, Hannah, Alessandro on 7 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Hannah Dalgleish

      Hannah Dalgleish answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Yeah, that could totally happen! But it will probably take a while.

      “Fifty million years from now, Australia will be in collision with southeast Asia. Africa will also be pushing right up against southern Europe, while the Atlantic will be a far wider ocean than it is today.”

      Taken from this article:

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20160729-in-250-million-years-earth-might-only-have-one-continent

    • Photo: Stuart Higgins

      Stuart Higgins answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      Yep, that’s plate tectonics in action! Many millions of years ago, all the continents were joined together into a super continent called Pangaea. Then the continents moved apart, and they are still moving today (one of the reasons we get earthquakes and volcanoes).

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