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Inside Reading 2 HW
1. Read "Pangaea" article (p. 87-88); Answer T/F questions (p. 88)
2. Write a short (6-8 sentennce) summary of the article.
3. Speed Reading #7
4. Study Idioms (Speed Reading #7)
Summary of the Article:Pieces of the Puzzle:The Evidence for Pangaea.
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The Earth surfaces is build of 40 various sized plates called the plate tectonic. The first Pardigm for explaining the relation between water bodies and landmass orginated in Europe in 1770 .It was dependant on the Bible intreprition scripts based on the great flood legend.This theory developed thereafter to be based on the unformity. The idea of plate tectonic as been percieved tody was reported by early geographers and map making. Alfred wagener in 1912 proposed the Pradigm of the Pangaea and gave explanation for his proposal.His supporters gave fossils evidences from all contenents as well as features and deposits similarities. The theory of plate tectonic was integrated to give further explanation of how the contents were moving far from each other with the theory of contental drift of wagner.
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2. Summary
The relation between landmass and water bodies that constitue the earth surface was given many interpitions throughout the history. Firstly, the religous interprition of the great foold in the Bible was wright in the begining. In the midle ages many map makers and geographers established the first interpretion of plate tectonic notion. In the modern times as early as 1912 many evolutions took place notably the theory of contenental drift by Wagner. In recent time it is understood that the plate tectonic movement is based on the sea floor flucuation caused by molten magma bushed these landmass asid.
There are evidences that the continents a long time ago was only one continent. This theory emerged if the first look of the African and South America coastal, they look like a piece of puzzle, they can match almost perfect. The second evidence are the fact that some geological rocks are the same in different continents. Today the most widely accepted theory is that which called "Theory of Continental Drift", this theory explain that the continents was only one continent and because of the natural disasters, like earthquake, give to earth the actual size of the continents.
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