What IF all Continents joined back together

 All Continents merged into one!

This is how the Earth looked like 200 million years ago.

What if all continents joined together into one giant land mass again? And you could travel from North America to Africa on foot? What country would become your new neighbour? Would this cause Natural disaster all over the planet? How long would this pangea last long? 

Did you know the land below you is actually moving right now? 

This is because all seven continents sit on the tectonic plates that Earth's crust  is broken into. These plates are floating on molten rock at the same speed your fingernails grow. It may sound slow but it does add up over hundreds of mllions of years. In the 4.5-billion-year historyof Earth, our continents have changed their appearance many times. Sometimes fusing together in crunching collisions, and sometimes breaking apart.

Right now they are slowly moving toward another collision. What if they suddenly sped up and smashed into a supercontinent again? Would you wake up to find yourself at the Mexican Border?

The world would look very different from what you're used to. If the plates collide in the direction they are moving now, the flight from Australia to Asia would never be cheaper. Since Australia would collide with Japan, Korea and China, the two continents would never be seperated by Atlantic ocean. And if you're really into walking, you'd also be able to travel from sunny Australia to the world's coldest continent, Antarctica, on foot. North America would bump into western Africa. Citizens of Newyork might wake up to find Namibian lions roaming through Central Park. The Northern part of Africa would crash into Europe. This would create a new Himalayan-scale mountain range on the border of tectonic plates.

Some of these would be sound fun, but there would be some really bad news, too. The Eastern side of Americas, along with Western Europe and Africa, would turn into an earthquake danger zone. On top of that, these areas would be devasted by the eruptions of newly-formed volcanoes. Green slopes of the Appalachians would become giant snow-covered mountains spewing ash and lava. This new Pangaea would mostly be arid and hot, as rain clouds would lose most of the moisture before getting too far inland. The super continent would be centered at the equator.

Wildlife could become less diverse as not all species can bear hot temperatures. But just like the most recent continental mashup, this reunion wouldn't last forever. Well, not longer than 50 million years. Volcanic eruptions would be spewing out large amount of lava and gas.

Add devsatating eathquakes to the equation, and you'd see these dangerous regions start to pull themselves apart. Stirred by hot currents below, the supercontinent would eventually become apart into smaller continents going their seperate ways. 

If bordering Australia would be a cool thing to you - bad luck, you won't see this happening anytime soon. But you can always imagine how the world would look if the giant continental pieces of puzzle come together. Give the planet 300 million years, and there will be another super continent. Geologists already gave it a name. "Pangaea Ultima". 

What would you name it?