The clause include the continental differenes in wild plant and animal species that could be dometicated, the orientation of axis for a continent, the relative isolation of people, and the continental differences in size of land and…
The Native Americans arrived in the americas by way of the bering Land Bridge. So let’s jump into some reasonings on why I believe about the Bering Land Bridge.. First, in the 1800’s they had some theories of a land bridge in between Asia and North America. There were also some written records about the land bridge by a spanish explorer named Fray Jose de Acosta. DNA had been matched with settlers from North America and in Southern Siberia near Lake Baikal.…
Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies has gone repeatedly explaining many reasons as to why places like Eurasia and New Guinea developed so differently. The argument of chapter ten is that the shape and major axes of continents affect the distribution of crops and domesticated animals. The continents that Diamond uses is Africa, the Americas, and Eurasia. With Africa and the Americas both have their major axis that are longitude (north to south) while Eurasia has a major axis that is latitude (east to west). The Fertile Crescent is one of the places where people first domesticating plants and animals.…
Pangea! It was the supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago. According to Alfred Wegener’s theory, long before us humans existed all of the continents used to be one large landmass. Who is Alfred Wegener you might ask? Alfred Wegener was a German polar researcher, geophysicist, and meteorologist born in Berlin on November 1, 1880.…
Around 380 million years ago, during the Devonian Period, North America and Baltica collided. This collision created another mountain range located in the same place where the Grenville Mountains and Taconic Mountains were formed. The Acadian Orogeny happened on the northeastern side of North America. Like TIA and the Grenville Belt, there was another land piece between Proto-North America and Baltica. This land piece was called Avalon.…
When the continents moved due to continental drift the caused geographic barrier to spring up between populations,…
Isabella Bonilla April 8,2015 Period 4 Project Johannes Kelper Johannes Kelper was from Swabia in Southwest Germany. He is famous for discovering the three mathematical laws of planetary motion. Kelper was famous for this because his discovery played a role in the scientific revolution. He also , in his college years, found time to create horoscopes for the students. Kelper's from Swabia, Germany.…
The Pacific plate wedge itself under the North American plate, causing folding, faulting and volcanic activity. The mountains here run north and south forcing transportation east to west, because there are only few gaps and…
There was also the shape of the curved shadows of the earth on the moon during eclipses and the variation of the star’s elevation with latitude. The fact that one sees new stars as ones move north or south on the earth’s surface was a backing to this idea. Another one, which most wouldn’t guess would be elephants. When someone travels west from Greece, they find elephants (African). When someone travels East they’ll find elephants (Asian) and they won’t realize they are different kinds of elephants.…
The theory was developed in the 1960’s and the 1970’s, and oceanographers were gathering new information on the movement of our Planet. Earth’s outermost layer is proposed to be in seven different plates. There is the African plate, North American and South American plate, Eurasian, Australian, Arctic and Pacific Plate. There also other smaller boundaries such as the Philippines and the Scotia plates. The plates move all over the place, and the speed of the plates varies.…
12. James Cook James Cook, a captain of the English Royal Navy and fellow seaman, disproved the theory about the “Southern Continent” when he led the first expedition to cross the Antarctic Circle. Throughout his expeditions, Cook created numerous charts of unexplored islands in the Pacific Ocean. On his third voyage south he discovered many islands, including Hawaii. Cook’s discoveries and numerous charts became invaluable to the future English explorers.…
The Native Americans arrived in the Americas by the way of the Bering and Bridge. One of the main pieces evidences of that there are recorded footprints from Eastern Siberia and the same footprints on Beringia less than 20,000 years ago. That shows that there had to be a bridge for them to cross on because there is no way the same people went all the way around. Also, there is a bridge that is there today but is covered in water. That means when the water level was lower there was a bridge there for them to cross.…
There are many theories concerning the coming of the early people and how they arrived. After much research and archaeological dig sites four theories were created. The theories are the Beringia, Maritime, Solutrean, and the South Pacific/Atlantic. Each theory has created lots of controversy in our world. Here is what the evidence supports.…
Pangaea eventually broke apart into separate piece of land due to plate shifts and geometric functions. He continues up to the end of the Ice Age. Roughly ten thousand years ago humans began to move towards exploring island in the Atlantic such as…
From the biggest cities to the smallest of molecules, the earth and its dynamics have been widely studied over the span of human history. Bright individuals have made astounding discoveries that has allowed the human race to come closer to finding an answer explaining the forces at work around them. Starting from the early days of the Grecian empire with Aristotle and Plato to the challenging ideals of Newton and Copernicus, science has been completely redefined and continues to grow as a result. Thomas Kuhn described particular scientific events, such as the transition from Aristotelian to Newtonian physics, as a paradigm shift that is realized when questioning the flaws of the then understood subject. The paradigm shift can be viewed…