We always talk about what each continent has—which is the biggest, which has the longest river, which has the most people. Now let's see what each continent doesn't have. Here are some things that…
HAVE EARTH’S CONTINENTS ALWAYS LOOKED THE SAME?WHY DO EARTH’S CONTINENTS MOVE? BIOGRAPHY: ALFRED LOTHAR WEGENER GERMAN, 1880–1930 TECTONIC PLATESFIND OUT MOREDry land covers just under one-third of…
(Encyclopedia) continent, largest unit of landmasses on the earth. The continents include Eurasia (conventionally regarded as two continents, Europe and Asia), Africa, North America, South America,…
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Continental drift (arrows indicate the directions of motion of the landmasses)
A. Proposed reconstruction of the supercontinent Pangaea indicating the major present landmasses
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(Encyclopedia) Wegener, Alfred LotharWegener, Alfred Lotharälˈfrĕt lōtärˈ vĕgˈənər [key], 1880–1930, German geologist, meteorologist, and Arctic explorer. Early in his life, he was on the staff of…
(Encyclopedia) Wilson, J. Tuzo (John Tuzo Wilson), 1908–93, Canadian geologist and geophysicist, b. Ottawa, Ph.D. Princeton (1936), M.A. Cambridge (1940). He worked for the Geological Survey of…
Source: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey According to the theory of continental drift, the world was made up of a single continent through most of geologic time. That continent…
Antarctica The second smallest continent, mostly south of the Antarctic Circle. Area: 14.2 million sq. km (5.5 million sq. mi.). Geographic South Pole: Earth's southernmost point, at latitude 90°…
Paleontologists now have evidence that dinosaurs lived on all of the continents. At the beginning of the age of dinosaurs (during the Triassic Period, about 230 million years ago) the continents…
