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    How Is Pangaea Like Zeus

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    Pangaea was one of the most strongest gods, next to Zeus. Pangaea in actually Zeus’s brother, but Zeus doesn’t like to talk about him. Pangaea was the oldest out of the four brothers. When Zeus became the god of gods, Pangaea had to bow down to his little brother. Nobody likes to talk about Pangaea because he died many centuries ago. Pangaea was the God Of War and was very muscular. Many people feared Pangaea. Even the great and powerful Zeus used to fear him. When Zeus became the lord of the…

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    think that you should accept Alfred Wegener’s Theory of Continental Drift. There is a large amount of realistic evidence to prove that this theory did occur. Wegener’s theory is that all seven continents were once joined into a supercontinent called Pangaea. He believes that after continents were in that supercontinent, they gradually moved apart over more than a hundred years ago and will continue to move in the future. This Theory of Continental Drift is supported by rock evidence, fossil…

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    In 1912, German meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed the theory that all the continents were once all one continent and then later drifted apart and separated leading to the seven continents we have today. He thought that 200 million years ago there was one large continent that he called Pangea, which means “All-Earth.” During the Jurassic period the continents were believed to break up into two smaller continents which were called Gondwanaland and Laurasia. The continents were breaking into…

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    In this day and age who would have figured that this country is still a divided nation. The problem that I seek to address would be people that are different not being accepted. For example people of a certain race, religion or sexuality are still being targeted.Is this how a diverse country should be? It is filled with three hundred and twenty-six million people. Come on, you can not continue to cater to one race or sexuality or religion, you have to cater to everyone. The New York police…

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    Over two hundred millions of years ago, the continents were once Pangaea. As time went by Pangaea spreaded apart into seven different continents. Before 1492, the New World was divided from the rest of the world. The voyages of explorers like Christopher Columbus introduced trading from the Old World into the New World. The reestablishment of connections between Europe and North America such as plants, animals, viruses, and bacteria, is known as the Columbian Exchange. The exchange affected both…

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    Why Does Dinosaurs Exist

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    What do you get if you cross a pig with a dinosaur? Jurassic Pork! (jokes4us.com) Most people in the world today do not realize how much they impact the ecosystem. Some people do not even have the knowledge about the ecosystem and how it affects the world we live in, and then there are those people that just do not care about the ecosystem. An ecosystem is a community of animals, people, and plants that interact with one another and their physical environment. One type of ecosystem that we take…

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    Another series of extinction took place, however not as severe as the pervious extinction, Dinosaurs still continued to thrive on Earth up until the End of the Cretaceous Period. With Pangaea broken up during the Jurassic Period, it was during the Cretaceous that the land masses Laurasia and Gondwanaland continued to finally break apart, forming the continents we see today. The climate during this period was mostly warmer and humid than…

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    Plate Tectonics

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    supporter of Continental drift theory; his theory is that approximately 270 million years ago all continents of the world were joined together to form a super continent, called Pangaea. Over the time of 70 million years, the continents broke apart to the locations they are in today. Wegner’s explanation for the separation of Pangaea was that movement occurred due to the Earth’s rotation and the continent split apart due to the force. This theory was not widely accepted, although Alfred had…

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    What are dinosaurs? Dinosaurs are enormously large reptiles (cold blooded animal) that lived during the Mesozoic era which is about 230 million years ago. Contrary to the general believe that all dinosaurs were cold blooded animals thought to be sluggish, there were dinosaurs who were warm blooded animals that shared more similar features with aves (birds) of these days than with reptiles, example of which is the velociraptors which belong to the genera Theropods. Some of these dinosaurs are…

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    Each of these periods is divided into many epochs and ages. Earth during the Mesozoic Era was much warmer than today, and the planet had no polar ice caps. During the Triassic Period, Pangaea still formed one massive supercontinent. Without much coastline to moderate the continent's interior temperature, Pangaea experienced major temperature swings. During the Mesozoic, or Middle Life Era, life diversified rapidly and giant reptiles, dinosaurs and other monstrous beasts roamed the Earth. The…

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