the Earth stores strain and releases stress along earthquake faults The earth’s lithosphere is constantly moving. As you may know‚ the modern day continents were once merged together as one continent called Pangaea. Slowly‚ fracturing pieces moved apart. Even today‚ the lithosphere is constantly moving. It is estimated that the continents today‚ move about an inch a year. Reid’s Elastic Rebound Theory proves “if a stretched rubber band is broken or cut‚ elastic energy stored in the rubber
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instruments is rich and diverse as the people that populate the African continent. Because music is so deeply rooted in African culture‚ knowing about African instruments helps you understand the continent as well as the people. Apart from Africans themselves‚ this knowledge is usually restricted to ethnomusicologists and historians. The roots of African-American instruments are buried deep within the music of the African continent. The history and evolution of African-Americans’ instruments are as rich
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festival called Icestock which is held annually in January in McMurdo Station with a message that never is there a shortage of music in Antarctica and the heat is inside the heart of each explorer. Say goodbye to Antarctica‚ let’s go to a warmer continent: Europe. Among the most amazing festivals is Oktoberfest where beer is on reign. Oktoberfest is regarded as the world’s largest funfair festival lasting for 16 days in Germany with the participation of 6 million people every year. Now we’re going
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master/disaster/vaster/faster‚ intent/continent/evident‚ etc. In the first stanza‚ the speaker tries to persuade the reader that some things are just meant to be lost and when they do get lost it’s not a big deal because it was going to get lost regardless. The second
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fall of sea level might lead to loss of shallow seas‚ so the species that made the niche in shallow seas home might become extinct‚ or evolve into forms adapted to the new environment. On the other hand‚ if two continents crash to form one‚ larger continent‚ then the niches of two continents can merge‚ no longer separated by a barrier. This leads to competition between the two species for the same niche‚ and can cause the extinction of one. The dinosaurs did not survive on Earth. How is it that mammals
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historical geology charts how and where the plates were moving in the past | | | None of thesephysical geology and historical geology are essentially the same. | 2 points Question 3 1. The relatively stable interior portion of a continent is known as a ________. Answer | | craton | | | shield | | | platform | | | belt | 2 points Question 4 1. The most prominent features on the ocean floor are the ________. Answer | | deep-ocean trenches
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culture‚ while the geographic region is widespread. Latin America is typically defined as those parts of the Central America‚ South America and Mexico where Spanish or Portuguese are the dominant languages. While Spain and Portugal are on the European continent‚ they are considered the key influencers of what is known as Latin culture‚ which denotes people using languages derived from Latin‚ also known as Romance languages. The El-Deir Monastery at Petra‚ Jordan‚ is an example of traditional Middle Eastern
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The arrival of Europeans on the North American continent impacted Native American indigenous people in ways that have been discussed in written material of eyewitnesses 500 years ago‚ as well as anthropologists and historians in recent times. The science of human evolutionary genetics has now provided confirmation that the arrival of Europeans on the North American continent catalyzed a demographic disaster for Native American indigenous peoples. New evidence indicates that although the population
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have we really learned about our world? We have learned a bit about foreign countries in the past few years‚ but how much have we learned about South America‚ our hemispherical neighbors? Our nation’s history is heavily intertwined with that of the continent below us‚ yet we haven’t gone into very much detail when studying it. Why not? We need to learn more about Latin America‚
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Charlemagne came along and turned on the light switch‚ Europe was traped in a centuries- long dark age.Charlemagne was eventually named holy roman emperor in the 8th century. By encouraging arts‚ culture and education‚ the Frankish king drew the continent out of cultural stagnation that threatened to never end. Both a fierce warrior and in many ways the first Renaissance man‚ Charlemagne’s accomplishments on the battlefield and in his laws led to the first notion of a pan-European identity. I feel
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