Australia is a Unique environment Reasons Australia’s environment is unique far outweighs the insane minimal reasons it is considered not. Australia has the world’s most unique fauna and flora‚ our landforms are like no other‚ the geographical perspective on how Australia was formed is unlike any country/continent and finally the natural hazards Australia experiences on a daily basis is unlike the world has seen. Thus it is obvious to say that Australia definitely has the most unique environment
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Plate Tectonic Assignment 1. The Juan de Fuca and Cocos plates were once part of a much larger plate called the _________ plate. 2. How long ago was this plate the dominate plate? 3. What plate(s) are the remnants of this former plate? 4. What kind of plate boundary exists between the Juan de Fuca and the North American plate? 5. What kind of plate boundary exists between the Pacific plate and the North American plate? 6. What tectonic process is ongoing between Baja California and the North
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us off last week‚ and Annabeth the week before‚ so that would leave it up to me to tell a tale as old as time. I begin‚ “It was long‚long ago‚ when the land had not yet split‚ when only few humans walked upon the Earth. Just 500 miles north of the Pangea‚ lived Goddess‚ Zaid. Zaid was a Goddess of Gold and Glory‚ therefore‚ she flourished in her abundance of coins‚ jewels‚ and servants. She had the power to control luck of each individual person‚ and the fate of each youngin. Zaid was calm and elegant
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by the Aztecs. Some may say that ancient civilizations did not contribute to world history because it happened long ago. This is false because everything developed takes time. Such as the fact that earth was not created overnight or that pangea spread overnight. Also theories such as the theory of evolution took time to become theories. The ideas of the ancient civilization were developed and made better overtime. This is why it is true that ancient civilizations did contribute to world
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events in the formation of Pangaea. Once the collision of the plates stopped‚ exposure and uplift occurred with this mountain system‚ which means this mountain system was now being exposed to weathering and erosion. Finally when the range was complete Pangea started to break apart during the Jurassic‚ which lead to the mountain system breaking apart. During this period South America started to head southward and the Gulf of Mexico was formed from the seafloor opening up‚ as well as the coastal plains
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Lesson 13.6 HOW WAS THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO FORMED? In 1912‚ Alfred Wegener proposed the past existence of a supercontinent called Pangaea (or Pangea). According to Wegener‚ Pangaea had split apart into a northern half called “Laurasia” and a southern half called “Gondwanaland”. Surrounded by a global ocean called “Panthalassa” and separated by a big body of water called “Tethys Sea”. The slow drifting of continents has been occurring over the past 250 million years. In the 1960s‚ the theory
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How do you think the principle of uniformitarianism accounts for occasional catastrophic events such as meteorite impacts‚ huge volcanic eruptions‚ or great earthquakes? Because uniformitarianism shows us that if our earths plates are moving today‚ they were moving in the past. This moving of the plates causing things such as earthquakes. In what ways do geologic processes affect your daily life? Geology is the study of earth‚ which is where we live. Understanding geology and how it works‚ helps
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The Pangaea Theory The Pangea theory describes that all continents were joined together in one enormous land mass millions of years ago. Later on the continents broke apart and start drifting in opposite directions and still continued to make another arrangement. In 1912‚ Alfred Wegner‚ a German meteorologist and geologist gave the hypothesis the all the continents were joined together in a single continental land mass surrounded by a single ocean (Panthalassa) Late Paleozoic times. The Wegner
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Columbian Exchange Between 225 and 280 million years ago‚ all the separate lands came together to form a landmass called Pangea. Around 120 million years ago the landmass had begun to separate. The result of this separation was the formation of the Atlantic Ocean‚ and the division of the Americas from Africa and Eurasia. The Columbian Exchange is known as the period of time when there were exchanges in the culture and the economy of the New and Old Worlds. Plants‚ animals‚ technology‚ and different
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One of the fiercest aquatic carnivores to roam the Earth and as big as 15 to 17 meters long it lived from the Late Oligocene to Early Pleistocene Era where the Megalodon lived in cold waters as the ice sheets have started to very slowly form from the cold waters of the Arctic but the Megalodon lived worldwide. Although being on top of the food chain the Megalodon also had competition which was the Odontocenti which consisted of raptorial sperm whale and squalodontis which were also apex predators
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