Continents

terrigenous or continental sediments

Continents move about 2-5 centimeters per year due to the process of plate tectonics. This movement is caused by the sliding and shifting of tectonic plates along the Earth's crust. Over millions of years, this movement can lead to significant changes in the positions of continents on the planet.

Not yet--they are still moving apart. Within the next hundred million years or so they should reverse direction and begin moving back together again. Look up "Wilson Cycle" for more information on that.

The material that melted to form the early continents was primarily basaltic oceanic crust. This crust was melted by the heat generated in the Earth's interior, resulting in the formation of granitic continental crust through processes like partial melting and differentiation.

The discipline that studies the shapes and locations of continents is geology, specifically in the subfield of plate tectonics. Plate tectonics explains the movement of Earth's lithosphere plates, leading to the shifting positions and shapes of continents over geological time scales.

The first land mass before it broke up into continents is called Pangaea. It was a supercontinent that existed about 335 million years ago and eventually split apart to form the continents we know today.

Around 200 million years ago, all the continents were joined together in a supercontinent called Pangaea. This event is known as Pangea's formation during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. Over time, Pangaea began to break apart, eventually leading to the continents we see today.

This is possible. A landmass is a continent or other large body of land. However, what's present on this landmass can affect weather. For example, carbon emissions presented by humans affects weather.

Scientists were convinced that continents were slowly moving due to evidence such as fit of the continents' coastlines, matching geological features across continents, and the discovery of mid-ocean ridges and seafloor spreading. This evidence supported the theory of plate tectonics, which explains how continents move over time.

the crust. the layer below that is the layer of molten lava called the mantle. the continental plates move and float on this. this is known as continental drift

Asia is the largest of Earth's land masses. It covers approximately 30% of Earth's total land area.

No. Landmasses cover less than 1/3 of Earth.

The reason continents move is because in the earth there are plates. The plates move because in the upper mantle (lithosphere) is hot liquid and it shoots up and shift the plates.

There are two main evidences for this:

1. The continents fit together like a puzzle

2. There are both extant and extinct animal and plant species present on several continents that are not connected

I was never any good with geography, but by comparing the current time to the time of your home city, you could probably find a pretty close guess. Let's say it's ten P.M. in your home city, New York. but the place you're in says it's 3 P.M. Every time you go one longitude further east, you go back in time by one hour. so your around the tip of China

It varies. North America and Europe separate by about 7.5 cm (3 inches) per year. India continues to slam into Asia roughly 6 cm per year.

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The current Wilson Cycle is about half finished, in another quarter billion years the Americas should reverse direction and smack back into eurasia and Africa.

1. The continent pieces fit together as if they where a puzzle. If you look at South America and Africa it seems that they could have once been connected.
2. Fossil evidence in different countries implies that they may have once been joined. The fossils of large birds are the same implying that there was a common ancestor to large flightless modern birds that are separated on different continents.
3. Mid ocean ridges are spreading the ocean floors apart. The age of the rocks on the bottom of the ocean shows that the plates that the continents are on are moving apart.
4. Finally, the most compelling evidence is to do with the magnetism of the rocks. As the lava cools the ferromagnetic material in some rocks lines up with the Earth's magnetic poles. When these rocks move they are no longer lined up to the Earth's current magnetic poles, they produce anomalies in the magnetic readings. These rocks reveal their latitude of where they were when they cooled.

The Euro-Australian plate contains parts of Europe, Africa, Australia, and parts of Asia. It encompasses some of the major landmasses on Earth.

Consonants are speech sounds that are produced by obstructing the airflow in some way as it passes through the vocal tract. These sounds are typically made with the mouth or throat. In the English language, examples of consonants include "b", "c", "d", "f", "g", etc.

The fifth largest continent on Earth is Antarctica. It is the southernmost continent and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean.

Yes, continents are constantly moving due to the process of plate tectonics. The movement is very slow, with rates typically on the order of a few centimeters per year. This movement is responsible for events such as earthquakes and the formation of mountain ranges over millions of years.

No, if you want proof every single earthquake that happens every single day is a product of the continental plates being in motion and the dynamics associated with that motion.

Pangaea. It was a supercontinent that existed millions of years ago and eventually broke apart to form the continents we have today.

Continental drift is the theory that the Earth's continents have drifted apart from a single landmass known as Pangea over millions of years. This movement is due to the shifting of tectonic plates on the Earth's surface. This theory is supported by evidence such as the matching coastlines of continents, similar rock formations, and fossils found on different continents.

Wearing and erosion only wears down a small proportion of rocks and soil compared to the whole continent. New mountain ranges are also constantly formed as tectonic plates push against each other.