Continental Drift [Updated, 2018] 

When your teacher says "watch this video" and then walks out of the building saying "see you Friday"

I noticed this at age 6, over 60 years ago. Being so young, the only way I could put it was, "South America goes out where Africa goes in." lol When I earned about plate tectonics in the 1970s I was happy to see that my 6 year old eyes hadn't deceived me. Just subbed.

As A Geography Teacher Based In Kenya, This Is One Of The Best Break Down Of Continental Drift Theory.

I'm gonna name my dog Alfred after this straight baller of a scientist. Froze to death looking for the truth. That's how a great man dies.

who are here for earth science on quarantine?

This is very educational but this guy’s voice is so relaxing almost thought I was listening to an asmr

You should make more video's, your way of teaching is so easy to understand, and it really helps!

I thought this video would be boring, but I was totally wrong. This was an amazing and super interesting video. Keep up the good work!

ur voice is relaxing, why all science "teachers" have this relaxing voice

A moment of silence for Wegener.

This was a great explanation. Indeed Alfred Wegener was a great man with a great mind. Thank you for explaining it so brilliantly!

You did a terrific job with this video. I will be using it with my Earth Science students on Thursday!! Thank you for putting it together.

This is a very good video and I plan to share it with my students as a review of Wegener's evidence of Continental Drift. My only complaint is your use of the word, "Theory." Continental Drift, was an idea, a hypothesis. His idea of continental drift later led to the theory of plate tectonics. This distinction is important in science and the casual misuse of the word 'theory" causes confusion for the general public. Please consider revising that portion of the video in your future updates. Thank you for your work.

I am not a scientist in anyway. But since a young kid in elementary school seeing my first really realistic looking globe and having been told about Pangea. While looking at the globe the thought cane to me that maybe a giant ice comet or ice moon crashed into what’s now known as the Pacific Ocean causing the earth to break open from the impact causing three things to happen: 1. Pangea to fracture up into separate tectonic plates. 2. Enlarging the earth’s size by absorbing the extra material of the colliding object. 3. Maybe the reason the earth is 70% water. The thing that gave me that thinking was Hawaii. Here was an the big island with smaller ones out in the middle of this giant Pacific Ocean. Like a giant pimple sticking out of the deep ocean. Which made me think of the images I had seen of a drop of milk hitting a cup of milk. It falls in then there’s a splash back, sending a drop up into the air. As this happens the milk creates a pimple like form from where the drop splashed back up out of. So maybe the impact of the larger object caused inner earth magma to splash up and creating the foundation for the Hawaiian islands. Also maybe the moon is the drop that splashed back up and out. Creating the moon. I know this all sounds nuts, but as a kid I thought these things. Still crosses my mind when I see satellite pics of earth. The Pacific Ocean just looks like it’s filling a giant area of the earth. But I know today’s science can prove that all wrong. But I was a 10 yr old kid with an imagination

Wow! You explained this theory perfectly! I have an exam in science in two days. This will be very helpful, thank you!

That's legit what I learned yesterday day on school

For all of us that went to school in the 1980's mentally I am waiting for the little beep of the flim strip to advance the frame. Good information to have repeated anyway.

Hey Mike, Can you please make a video on Folds and Faults ? Its my request to you because I really like the way you explain all these things.

Thanks you this was an assignment to watch and white notes on and you were very clear

Is it just me, or this this actually the only interesting video your science teacher makes you watch in online school??

Plate tectonics is for the purpose of differentiating the iron that is trapped above the core, Earth is in the final phase of differentiation, that takes place ONLY in the goldilocks zone. As heavier material is sinking and lighter material is rising, this causes gravity and centripetal force to increase. The increase in gravity comes from the iron weighing more than the same volume of silicate. This means Earths core is getting denser at the expense of the mantle, allowing the mantle to become lighter with this exchange, leads to the increase in centripetal force. The increase in centripetal force is only acknowledged as increased surface speed, because the added centripetal force allows for Earths mantle to occupy a greater volume, therefore maintaining a 24 hour rotation. The greatest accomplishment was maintaining a 24 rotation during the crossing of the Goldilocks zone, this made life possible, without 24 rotation being fixed, we would not be here. The truth is, an increase in centripetal force always leads to an increase in circumference. Mars has a 24 hour rotation and its axis are tilted like Earth. Mars is half of Earths diameter, and its surface speed is half of Earths, this means if the same thing were to happen on Mars, where its heavier material sinks and the lighter material rises from the core, Mars too, will grow in radius and overtime will cross the Goldilocks zone just as we have. Earth is leaving the Goldilocks zone while Mars is entering. Earths dimise will be the lose of Moon due to increased centripetal forces and gravity pulling Earth closer to the sun, where the Moons density cannot go.

Thank you Mike,you are one of the best teachers ! This will help us,at school.

Wegner is an true scientist and an amazing man he spent his time to prove his theory and a true man will do anything to prove that they are correct. It is such a shame he was frozen to death I truly wish him a happy life in heaven

Thank you a lot!!!! That is absolutely great! Much better than my doctor ❤❤

This video made me emotional, God bless Wegner's soul, I stan

this helped so much

Cool video!!!!! We Had To Watch This 4 Homework WSQ

Wegener was a cold hard man who never knew there were rocks on the bottom of the ocean.

This version is a bit better than your 2012 video. I’m sorry I didn’t stumble upon this until 2019. We are going to Greenland in 2021. I hope I don’t freeze to death. I thought his body was still undiscovered? Maybe it was just his journal that wasn’t found.

I saw a TV show when i was a kid about this rabbit that actually sawed the state of Florida right off ! I wonder if this was how the continents separated.

It has been noticed by some that if you place the continents on a smaller diameter earth then all the continents fit together, north, south, east and west. Even if you close the Pacific they fit together perfectly. The science community rejected the idea that continental drift was caused by an increase in diameter of the earth because no natural process could be found to account for it. So therefore this theory was replaced by the standard model with drifting plates, subduction zones and a constant diameter earth. There are two observations that seem to militate against this. One - how can plates be moved if the mantle circulations move around the earth, creating a push and a pull? Two - large islands are surrounded by midocean ridges suggesting oceanic crust under the continental crust stretching in all directions.

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I've been thinking about this a bit and I want a pangea map with all ancient ruin locations pin pointed and see how close they are in proximity to each other . Would explain alot of rock being moved from far off locations .

Wegner is a real genius ... Thank you Mr Wegner for your contributions

Thanks for the video! It helped a lot

Good video Mike, well done.

Great video and narrative. Hope to see more from you.

The Best video on this topic thank you for the beautiful explanation

can you make a video on Plate Tectonics?

I love your videos! Keep up the good work my man.

Wow😮 this is awesome

Great explanation

Thanks for information

Hi Mike, Thank you very much for your very clearly explanation.

Great videos! Thank you so much for making and posting them all!!! Sorry to be greedy but the link for the worksheet gives an error message

Whats updated from this video of Continental drift(2018) and the last one uploaded in 2013

no mention of the iguanas or possums that are spread from Australia, PNGuinea, Mid Pacific Isles, and western americas. The Pacific split East Asia+Oceania and America apart just as the Atlantic split America and Europe+Africa apart. Such bio similarity is an inconvenience to standard plate tectonics, as it favours Growing Earth theory, so its ignored by mainstream geologists.

Great video .......

Mike, I have a question. Mossasaurus is believed to have appeared in South America in the late cretaceous some 90 million years ago (e.g. Taniwhasaurus antarcticus specimen is dated circa 70 m.y.a.) in the shallow seas formed by the invasion of the new atlantic ocean into part of Patagonia. However, from the video I understood that Mossasaurus (freshwater, a different variation) is evidence of continents being joined initially, because this animal could not have survived crossing the Atlantic, and its fosils are found both in Argentina and in South Africa. Hence the ocean wasn't there at the time. What am I missing? Thanx.

Great video! Does Wegener have descendants that know of his accomplishments?

Beautiful job, Mike!

Very good video. Congratulations..! Can I use some parts of your video in my video of urdu language please?

Congratulations!

got my homework done finally

This would help me a lot............

Love the voice (narrative) 👍

Worksheet links don't work... :+(

Hi Mike, This is a great summary of Wegener's ideas, evidence and theory, with clear narration and graphics.....it's a favourite of mine to use with my Yr r class (Australia). May I have you permission to download this to our education video platform 'Clickview'? (we are not always able to access youtube from our classrooms.

So nice ❤️

Hey dude I just wanted to say you got some dope ass videos man

Plate tectonics. You were ahead of your time.

great thinking

9:53 Seafloor Spreading is what comes to mind. Unfortunately Wegener failed to study this matter. After his death, scientists like Harry Hess proposed this Seafloor Spreading theory and it is mainly one of the strongest evidences you can find to back up Wegener's Continental Drift Theory...

alfred wegner was GOAT

Great thinking 😊

Alfred Fegner, Alfred Vegner, yes pronunciation is amazing here

The next Fast and Furious movie - "Continental Drift, Slow But...Yea Slow"..

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What did the people before the discovery of continental drift and tectonic plates believe made mountains, if not convergent plate boundaries?

this is so interesting, I don’t get why they don’t teach this in school.

I love learning about history

What was Pangea? Give me the time please where you said it

I came here expecting some fully sick drift cars 🤨

Great

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so the continent sat on the very edge of the tectonic plates just so could fit together and not talking about the continental shelves that surround each of the continents or allowing for any erosion over say 4.5 billion years or asteroids so this leads me to think this is a crock

So much have the continents moved in the last hundreds years?

Good job wgener

I actually have a question I can't find the answer to. How is Africa moving due to continental drift? Has parts of African moved up and down beneath the ocean? I've heard theories of atlantas being in north west Africa. I'd like to see evidence for the "eye of Africa" being submerged underwater. Thank you!

Hi Mike, what software do you use to make your videos ? I am interested in integrating technology as well.

Same

Very smart

Yes Weser

sir can i use your animation in my video for free teaching

The theory of evolution and the theory of continental drift are ver influential theories in human history. The continental drift theory is the most interesting one to me. P.S. today is the day Darwin submitted the ‘Origins’.

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The real question is how fast the continental drift occurred in the past. Two theories are available for research. Continental sprint versus continental drift. Evidence in mantle actually show temperatures too cold for long ages. Folded mountains cannot happen over long periods of time. All layers needed to be soft at the same time.. Most anomalies can be explained by a single catastrophic global flood versus long eons of time.

Was there only one massive supercontinent in the beginning? Or were there more than one?

this shi acc so interesting no cap geography is the most goated subject

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Oof, I didn't expect to get suckered punch in the end like that.

here for online classes lol

Thanks Alfred Lothar Wegener (btw I learned this in school)

Thnks from algeria

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Wegener

Do you know what is the most absurd way of thinking is?? Accidental creation of living cell from chemicals. And that cell luckily survived and had the ability to take food, digest it, make energy and replicate itself.