Alfred Wegner was the theorist behind the discovery of tectonic plates back at the start of the 19th century. He found that across the globe there were small bits of evidence that showed the earth was once just one big continent called Pangaea, one part of evidence he found to explain this vast continent was the mountain ranges going through the middle of the West of Africa and the East of South America both of which go right up to the coastline and end in the sea. He noticed that if you connected the two continents up like a jigsaw then the two mountain ranges joined up nicely to make one big one. It isn’t just these two continents that join up but all the continents we have today connected up. For example Canada and the north of Scotland connect agreeably, and they have similar rock formations which indicate that they were laid down at the same time in the same place.
The fertile land along the Rio Grande River has given rise to many farms. Presently, there are only 37 acres of protected palm forest compared to approximately 40,000 acres that once covered the delta
Take Test: AF - Africa Unit Exam Question 1 Somalia is located on the coast of Africa, east of Ethiopia. True False Question 2 The Sahara Desert region is not lush in vegetation, except in the Nile Valley basin. True False Question 3 The equator runs through the countries of Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Uganda, Kenya, and Somalia. True False Question 4 Desertification is the degradation of land in arid and dry sub-humid areas, but is not occurring in Africa yet. True False Question 5 Lake Victoria is the huge reservoir of the New Aswan High Dam.
There are only 2 seasons: summer from May to October and winter from November to April. The average daytime summer temperature at sea level is 85 degree F and the average daytime winter temperature is 78 degree F. Temperatures at night are around 10 degree F. lower. According to Wilson's hotspot theory, the volcanoes of the Hawaiian chain should get slowly older and become tougher the farther they travel outside the hotspot. The oldest volcanic rocks on Kauai, the northwestern most inhabited Hawaiian island, are about 5.5 million years old and are deeply tough. By contrast, on the "Big Island" of Hawaii -- southeastern most in the chain and probably still located over the hotspot -- the oldest bare rocks are less than 0.7 million years
This tree was only able to grow in warm climates and had a seed that could not float, yet fossils of this tree are found in different hemispheres of the world today. The two types of islands are continental islands and oceanic islands. Since sSimilar species are found on many different islands, this which supports the claim that at one time, every piece of land was connected. The evidence of the continental drift is abundant. Plate tectonics are the main evidence to support er of the notion of continental drift, as well as the shapes of the continents.
While there is an abundance of reasons to travel to Aruba the geography and climate are certainly the most important and attractive. The island of Aruba is located just 19 miles North of Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea and neighbors another Dutch Island, Curacao The geographic coordinates (for the technical people) are 12 30 N, 69 58 W. The Island itself is rather small, being only 193 square kilometers which is slightly larger than Washington D.C. However, the cement streets of the nations capital are nothing compared to the 68 kilometers of coastline, which is sandy, white on the south side and rough, jagged rock on the north. This island, like many in the Caribbean has become a tourist hotspot for its tropical marine climate, with minimal seasonal temperature variation. A major
Savannas have warm temperature year round. There are actually two very different seasons in a savanna; a very long dry season (winter), and a very wet season (summer). The tropical savanna is generally found in regions dominated by the wet-dry tropical climate such as Australia, and Africa. An extensive cover of tall grasses, sometimes reaching a height of 3 meters, is found in the tropical savanna. Most savanna grass is coarse and grows in tufts with intervening patches of bare ground.
Colonizing in Africa gave nations resources, land, and labor, but it still wasn’t easy, especially when they received unexpected resistance. African natives lost basically everything during this time and have spent years trying to gain it back. Imperializing in another country is not a good idea whether or not you are trying to help the people there, because the country most likely doesn’t want your involvement. Doing it for your own gain is selfish and tyrannical, and it usually means you plan on taking whatever you want from that place by any means. I would not recommend imperialization because it is unnecessary and risky.
Programs are needed to bring the people out to obtain better healthcare in rural areas but again the disparities they face are a stopping force. Because of this many interventionists fail to see the Return on Investment. Often more time, effort, finances and energy is put into providing quality healthcare in these areas. It is hard for the interventionists to see there ROI in the beginning. As the article stated the ROI is often seen many years later, being focused on certain health issues.
As we saw in the video “Guns, Germs and Steel” with Professor Jared Diamond, we saw that the tribe’s lack of intelligence was not the case for developing more as a civilization. For example, we saw how the people of New Guinea lived. They used the resources they had around them in order to make food, clothing and weapons to help grow and succeed as a civilization. Not only this, but by having the children help at a young age made the tribe more successful in the way that everyone played a part in contributing to make their civilization stronger as a unit. Another reason that the civilizations might have not been successful could have been the weather and climate that they were to go through.