Answer:
c. Montevideo, Uruguay (35°S)
Explanation:
Montevideo, Uruguay (35°S) had the longest day on June 21, 2019 during the Summer Solistics when the sun is directly over the tropic of cancer which is on latitude 23.5 degrees North. Montevideo is closest in latitude to this point among the options and as such will experience a longer day compared to the other options.
<span>When wind and running water gradually decrease in velocity, the transported sediments are deposited over a period of time, and are sorted by size and density. This is because as the velocity decreases, sediments or rocks will accumulate resulting to variety of sizes and a change in density.</span>
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Answer:
1. Salts. 2. Oil reserves. 3. Gold deposits. 4. Minerals
Explanation:
- As oceans are the lifeblood of the planet they give all the natural resources that we need to live a healthy and economic life. Seafloor contains various features like volcanic vents and trenches. These vents contain massive seafloor sulfur contents.
- Also, they consist of high-value items like gold, silver deposits as these have been constantly been drilled for such precious metals. Similarly, various minerals and salt content ate known to have been found in these deposits.
- The presence of active deposits is found near the continental plate boundary. Certain SEZ special economic zones have neb thus made to help preserve the mineral and oil wealth of nations.
i. Using fossil evidences
ii. Similar rock lithologies at the edges of continent
iii. Climate clues
iv. Fitting of the continents into a puzzle
v. Sea floor spreading
Explanation:
Pangea was a super-continent on the earth which formed about 330 million years ago during the Paleozoic and began breaking up during the early Mesozoic, about 175 million years ago.
Most of the present day continents formed as a result of the separation of the Pangea in the early Mesozoic.
The first scientist to propose the existence of this super-continent was Alfred Wegener in 1912. He suggested the continental drift hypothesis to explain the separation of the land masses.
Today, the theory has been revised to the theory of plate tectonics which provides a better mechanism to understand the drifting of the continents.
Here are some of the evidences to support the existence of Pangea;
- Using fossil evidences: Mesosaurus, a reptile animal that lived during the Permian, was found in both South America and Southern Africa. Since this animal could not swim nor fly, only a jointed landmass could have made them present in both continents.
- Similar rock lithologies at the edges of continents: rock formations at the Western edge of Africa and South - Eastern part of Brazil matches with one another and have been believed to be once joined together.
- Climatic clues such as glacial tills that are confined to temperate and polar regions have been found in tropical regions.
- Wegener fitted the present day continent into a giant supercontinent and this provided a visual support for his claim.
- Evidences from sea floor spreading revealing magnetic reversals at divergent margins suggests the prevalence of plate tectonics i.e moving plates on earth.
This among many other evidences underscores the existence of a supercontinent called Pangea.
