Answer:
No,
Explanation:
It is rising due to global warming and iceburgs melting
The sun. But at the center of our galaxy (Milky Way) is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A- star
Answer: plateaus.
Plateau is a large extension of high and quite flat land.
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Neither rock A nor B could become metamorphic rocks.
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- Magma is the molten rock under the surface hardens into igneous rock. This rock breaks down over time under the process of weathering.
- These pieces of "igneous rocks" are cemented together with other bits of rocks to form sedimentary rocks.
- These rocks get buried under the geological processes like earthquakes. Now, coming in contact with high temperatures and magma, these rocks get changed into metamorphic rocks.
- So, from option A, igneous rock is formed. When combined with rock B and other rocks, sedimentary rocks are formed.
- Metamorphic rocks are formed in the next process. Therefore, neither of the two rocks could become "metamorphic rocks".
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.
