The Earth rumbles and a hiss of steam issues from the top of Mt Ruapehu. Are these two events related? Is the earthquake caused by the volcano? Or is the steam caused by the earthquake?
Tectonic plates
When Alfred Wegener first proposed the idea of continental drift (the precursor idea to plate tectonic theory), it didn’t quite explain the full story. While he correctly showed that Africa and South America fitted together, his model wasn’t able to explain the violent forces that occur around the Earth’scrust.
One would most likely find a glacier-carved lake in Patagonia
Answer:
Hello. You have not attached the map to which this question refers, which makes it impossible for your question to be answered. However, I can help you by showing that the political map can be used by a historian who wants to study the distribution and division of Roman society within Roman territory.
Explanation:
A political map is used when a stylist wants to analyze the administrative division of a territory, showing the border of that territory with neighboring territories and also showing the internal borders that show the divisions within the territory.
In this case, we can say that a historian would use a political map to analyze the geographic distribution and population concentrations of Roman civilization.
I would say that the Rocky Mts were the youngest of all these mountain ranges as they were created between 80-55 million years ago during the Laramide Orogeny and also they are generally much taller than the other mountain ranges mentioned here which is a characteristic of young mountain ranges and their features are sharper as they haven't been eroded the way most of these others have so have been subject to erosion for less time than the others.
