QUIZ ANSWERS Which of the following is a recurring theme in geography? A Geographic information on human activities A a community of plants and animals ecosystem An area that ____ is called a formal region. A a particular space with physical and human meaning place What are the two types of location that geographers use as reference points? C The address to your house would be considered a(n) ________ location. A Geographers use a grid system in order to A Lance Milbrand, a filmmaker, spent 41 days on remote Clipperton Island in the Pacific Ocean.
The Sierra Nevada Mountains on the Pacific coast of North America and the Andes on the coast of South America were cited. Wegener also suggested that India drifted northward into the Asian continent thus forming the Himalayas. Many other scientist provided evidence toward this theory of a “continental jigsaw”, this evidence included geological matches in the rock type on two different continents coastlines found thousands of miles away e.g. Scotland and Canada and South America and Africa. Fossil evidence was also provided; trilobites of the same species found in Canada and Scotland and also, coal deposits were located in Antarctica.
The Era is made up of six Geologic periods, the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, and the Permian. Much of the plants and animals that exististed and evolved was due to the climate and location of the continents. At the beginning of the Paleozoic period, the continents were far apart, but by the end they were close together and on the way in forming the supercontinent called Pangaea. The land was moving by Plate Tectonics. Four hundred and thirty million years ago there was glaciation; this caused an ice sheet to cover what is now North Africa.
[1] The observatory and accompanying exhibits were opened to the public on May 14, 1935. In its first five days of operation the observatory logged more than 13,000 visitors. Dinsmore Alter was the museum's director during its first years; today, Dr. Ed Krupp is the Director of the Observatory. Contents [hide] 1 Exhibits 1.1 Renovation and expansion 2 Visiting Griffith Observatory 3 Filming location 4 Popular culture references 5 Gallery 6 See also 7 References 8 External links [edit] Exhibits The first exhibit visitors encountered in 1935 was the Foucault pendulum, which was designed to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth. [3] The exhibits also included a twelve-inch (305 mm) Zeiss refracting telescope in the east dome, a triple-beam coelostat (solar telescope) in the west dome, and a thirty-eight foot relief model of the moon's north polar region.
The stone holds the translation of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. This is almost like a translation of the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphics was a form of communication used by priests and scribes (Sayre 75). First glance, many may see this as a slab of stone with writing on it. I myself even saw it as a slab of stone with writing on it, but when I looked deeper into it, I grew a great interest in it.
Art history includes the entire history of humankind; from the prehistoric age all the way up to the twenty-first century. Art history is refers to the history of the visual arts. but In my opinion it does not just limit to the visual art and includes different types of art. The way art history is defined has also changed over the years. The goal of Art history is to categorize changes in art throughout time and help to understand how art has shaped.
The cultures of different ages and regions have produced art through a vast range of mediums. Each of these mediums of art reflects the world, as seen by the creator, at that precise time which is, basically, the definition of the word “culture”. Wordnet, created by Princeton University, defines culture as “a particular society at a particular time and place”. Going back to the cave paintings of long ago, we learn of the surroundings, way of life, dress, nourishment, and even conflicts known to the generation of humans living at that time. This was their culture.
Theory of continental drift The hypothesis that the continents had once formed a single land mass before breaking apart and drifting to there present locations was first presented by Alfred Wenger. He believed that the continents were once joined in a super continent that scientists now call Pangaea. Over a vast period of time the continents drifted apart due to the earth’s rotation. In 1915 he published a book about his theory. His main evidence was the continents appear to have a jigsaw like fit, the west coast of Africa and South America have the same pattern of rock layers and have the same plant and animal fossils; some of these animals are only found in those parts of the world and their fossils show they could not swim.
Wenger’s proposition was that the continents were slowly moving along with tectonic plates and that was why they shifted position on the earths surface, the evidence to support his theory was the same plant fossils and similar rock formations all found on different continents. Wenger believed that the continents had once formed to make one whole continent known as Pangea, which is Greek for ‘all the lands’. According to Wenger’s theory Pangea began to break up about 225-200 million years ago and eventually fragmented into the continents we know
One piece of evidence from an ice age shows us that continental drift actually happened. One of the Earth’s ice ages is called Permo Carboniferous, It’s large glacial sediments had covered many countries. These glacial sediments covered South America, Africa, Madagascar, Arabia, India, Antarctica, and Australia. Permo Carboniferous happened about two hundred and fifty million years ago and was discovered by A.G. Smith in 1997. This is important, because these continents could not all have been frozen while they were apart.