The creators of the theory could not find a way to answer the question "What force was strong enough to move them?". Another reason why was that they proposed a movement speed of the continents that was incredibly high and impossible to reach.
The answer is 8% species discovered
The leeward side of the mountain is the side of the mountain that is covered by wind and you may notice that that side is drier than the windward side, which is the side that faces the incoming wind.
Now the leeward side temperature increases from top to bottom because when the air goes up the mountain from the windward side, it loses most of its moisture. So by the time the air goes down the leeward side, it lacks moisture and heats up as it loses even more moisture going down. This is called the rain shadow effect.
Biotic factors are organisms that interact with non-living & living parts of an ecosystem.
Egs. badgers, worms, fungi, bacteria, insects.
I believe it would be 7,000,000 + 500,000.
