List three puzzling occrrences that the theory of continental drift helped to explain, and describe how it....
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continental drift explained why similar plants and animals were found on opposite on the ocean, similarly why similar fossil assemblages and rock types were found on opposite sides of the ocean, for example in Europe and North America , and Africa and South America. Continental drift explained these occurrances by suggesting that the landmasses had previously been joined but had split, and the new continents drifted apart, taking animals plants rocks, fossils with them.\n\nIt also explained why marine fossils were found on top of mountains, as the theory of continental drift suggested that just as continents drifted apart, they could also collide, and the collision would raise the landmass up.\n\nIt also explained why volcanic activity occurs in certain places in the world, ie along the edges of moving plates.
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I'm certainly no expert, but from my high school physics days I recall something about Bode's law.  You might be able to Google or Wikipedia it.  It was an explanation, in Newtonian physics terms, of why the planets are where they are.
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Read "The Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain. It has the answer.
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1. earth's tilt\n2. earth rotation\n3. earth revolution
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A. True.\nThe concept of continental drift was first proposed by Alfred Wegener. In 1912 he noticed that the shapes of continents on either side of the Atlantic Ocean seem to fit together (for example, Africa and South America). Francis Bacon, Antonio Snider-Pellegrini, Benjamin Franklin, and others had noted much the same thing earlier. The similarity of southern continent fossil faunae and some geological formations had led a relatively small number of Southern hemisphere geologists to conjecture as early as 1900 that all the continents had once been joined into a supercontinent known as Pangaea. The concept was initially ridiculed by most geologists, who felt that an explanation of how a continent drifted was a prerequisite and that the lack of one made the idea of drifting continents wholly unreasonable. The theory received support through the controversial years from South African geologist Alexander Du Toit as well as from Arthur Holmes. The idea of continental drift did not become widely accepted as theory until the 1950s in Europe. By the 1960s, geological research conducted by Robert S. Dietz, Bruce Heezen, and Harry Hess along with a rekindling of the theory including a mechanism by J. Tuzo Wilson led to acceptance among North American geologists.\n\nThe hypothesis of continental drift became part of the larger theory of plate tectonics. This article deals mainly with the historical development of the continental drift hypothesis before 1950. See: plate tectonics for information on current ideas underlying concepts of continental drift.
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A good example of this is that scientists have found fossils of exactly the same species of reptile in Africa and South America, what happened here is that South America and Africa were once joined together and these animals died distributed on top of them, then the continents moved aprt and the fossils are on both\nThis isnt an example of evolutionary distribution due to continents moving but shows they do move and animals live on both of them\nNow what could happen is that a species could live on  continents joined together and as the continents drift apart the species are left on both sides of it and they evolve into separate but similar species ( like Humans and apes evolved form a common ancestor). \nSO the continets drifting explains why similar species can be on both sides of the Ocean that separates 2 continents because the continents drift apart with the species on both of them and the species evolve into 2 separate but similar species.
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you can probably research all three sources, and give an approximation,  YOU MAY BE ABLE TO ASK THIS QUESTION UNDER GEOLOGY, OR EVEN PALEONTOLOGY, but when you research stay away from evolutionary theory
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The answer is definitely B.\n\nWegener used that along w/ the fact that certain rock types found in Africa also matched rocks in South America. Also he used the fact that the continents looked as though they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.\n\nWhile Wegener proposed the hypothesis of continental drift he did not actually prove it.\n\nActually, it wasn't until the late 60's that the theory of plate tectonics actually proved Wegener's hypothesis & it became widely accepted.
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I would say that darwin saw a pattern in that certain fossils were only seen at certain depths, etc.. and was able to see that that meant certain animals must have come from other animals and that not all animals were on earth at the same time.  That was the standard thought of the day and he was able to break free of that traditional thought to see the data in a fresh creative way.
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It is called continental drift.  Check out wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_drift
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Mantle convection moves the plates\n\nAt plate boundaries, there are many forces at work: ridge push, slab pull, trench suction, slab roll back and basal shear resistance to name a few.\n\nThe links go into more detail about the forces and where they working.
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A friend of mine has been trying to explain rational behavior in terms of evolution and such.  I think you might be interested in reading it.
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My favourite theory so far is the eruption of gas bubbles in the region, whether from instable methane hydrate or other sources.\n\nThe effective density of water gets reduced when gas bubbles are pushed through it, causing ships to sink.\n\nAircraft might be affected, too. Most Bermuda Triangle mysteries are about uncommon disappearences.\n\nThis won't explain any temporal or spatial displacement stories, but proof for those is shaky, IMO.
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Thats the theory of lithospheric evolution that holds that the ocean floors are spreading outward from vast underwater ridges. \nFirst proposed in the early 1960s by the American geologist Harry H. Hess, its major tenets gave great support to the theory of continental drift and provided a conceptual base for the development of plate tectonics.\n\nBUT...\n\nAlfred Wegner came up with continental drift! \n\nA geological theory that the relative positions of the continents on the earth's surface have changed considerably through geologic time. Though first proposed by American geologist Frank Bursley Taylor in a lecture in 1908, the first DETAILED theory of continental drift was put forth by German meteorologist and geophysicist Alfred Wegener in 1912.
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muromets is correct. You can model this yourself using clay. On a cookie sheet, put a half inch of water. On top, put a 1/2 layer of rolled clay. This is what the earth was liked pre-flood. The earth was watered from below. Now break open the center and the water will burst forth (as Genesis describes) and now the clay is covered by the water as the clay sinks. Now pull the clay out toward the corners and the water will display into seas.\nIn order for the continental drift to occur properly, the earth would have had to expand, thus making physics of the covering of the earth with water and its later displacement to be quite possible.
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The tectonic plates are "floating" on a liqid mantle that has convection currents.  These convection move the plates around the globe.  This is the science behing plate tectonics
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1) all three can happen, but most 'common', or at the most angles, the answer is refracted.\n\n2) b.  The example I usually give is shaking a slinky back and forth.\n\n3) mohorviric discontinuity, or moho for short.  It's about 6 km for ocean crust, and 30 km for continental crust.\n\n4) d for sure!