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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stuff between other countries on the continent. People need new ways of transportation to move to other countries. The railroads‚ which were created to provide transport to people who needed to move to other countries‚ transportation of agricultural‚ mining and farming goods‚ help the countries to “spring up along the way” by promoting the commerce because people could travel all around the continent paying a low cost. Those people from different parts of the continent who visited the West could buy some
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and the pole has moved or it could be because the rock has moved taking its ancient pole position with it and so giving the false impression that the pole has moved. Study of rocks of the same age from different continents often give different pole positions. This means that the continents have moved over the surface of the Earth because different pole positions cannot exist at the same time and a single pole position can only be obtained by moving the
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The middle ages are defined as the time period in Europe from around 476 CE to 1450 CE. This period started with fall of the Roman Empire and ended with the beginning of the Renaissance. Some people refer to this section of time as the Dark Ages but most call this the Middle Ages because it wasn’t as bad as people make it out to be. It is actually a period of hope for the people in Europe‚ many great ideas and inventions came about because of this period of poverty and weaker city structure.
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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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| | | | Africa is the second largest continent in the world but‚ also the poorest. Africa has many different beautiful islands. | |The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea‚ and is divided into four parts north‚ south‚ east‚ and west. It is extremely | |diverse in terms of ethnicity‚ language‚ and culture. Unfortunately‚ this
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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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