Context: During the Permian all the Earth's major land masses, except portions of East Asia, were collected into a single supercontinent known as Pangaea. Pangaea straddled the equator and extended toward the poles, with a corresponding effect on ocean currents in the single great ocean (Panthalassa, the universal sea), and the Paleo-Tethys Ocean, a large ocean that was between Asia and Gondwana. The Cimmeria continent rifted away from Gondwana and drifted north to Laurasia, causing the Paleo-Tethys to shrink. A new ocean was growing on its southern end, the Tethys Ocean, an ocean that would dominate much of the Mesozoic Era. Large continental landmasses create climates with extreme variations of heat and cold ("continental climate") and monsoon conditions with highly seasonal rainfall patterns. Deserts seem to have been widespread on Pangaea.

Question: What supercontinent prevailed during the Permian era?
Answer: Pangaea

Question: What was the largest ocean during the Permian called?
Answer: Panthalassa

Question: There was an ocean between Gondwana and Asia in the Permian, what was it?
Answer: Paleo-Tethys Ocean

Question: The moving of which continent contributed to the decrease in size of the Paleo-Tethys?
Answer: Cimmeria

Question: During which period was the Tehtys Ocean dominant?
Answer: the Mesozoic Era

Question: What supercontinent did Asia join in the Permian?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Wat continent stradled the south pole and extended towards the equator?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What coninent drifted away from Laurasia and towards Gondwana?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What continents movement decreased the size of the Paleo-Tethys
Answer: Unanswerable