According to Wegener, Pangaea broke up into two large landmasses called and _.

Laurasia

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Gondwanaland

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Solution

The correct options are
A Laurasia
B Gondwanaland
Wegener hypothesised that Pangaea broke up into two large landmasses called Laurasia or AngaraLand and GondwanaLand.

Laurasia contained the present-day North America, Greenland, and all of Eurasia, located to the north of the Indian subcontinent.

GondwanaLand contained the present-day South America, Africa, Madagascar, the Indian subcontinent, Arabia, Malaysia, East Indies, Australia, and Antarctica.

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