Answer: large-scale horizontal movements of continents relative to one another and to the ocean basins during one or more episodes of geologic time. This concept was an important precursor to the development of the theory of plate tectonics, which incorporates it.The idea of a large-scale displacement of continents has a long history. Noting the apparent fit of the bulge of eastern South America into the bight of Africa, the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt theorized about 1800 that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean had once been joined. Some 50 years later, Antonio Snider-Pellegrini, a French scientist, argued that the presence of identical fossil plants in both North American and European coal deposits could be explained if the two continents had formerly been connected, a relationship otherwise difficult to account for. In 1908 Frank B. Taylor of the United States invoked the notion of continental collision to explain the formation of some of the world’s mountain ranges.
Explanation:
After doing a lot of research on the answers to questions 40-42 on the Regents exam and studying the map you posted, the answer can be easily figured out.
It will take approximately 3 hours for the apparent position of the sun to change from point A on the map to point B on the map.
The correct answer choice will be number 3, 3 hours.
Explanation:
Jupiter is the fastest-rotating planet in our solar system, it only takes at about 10 hours to complete its one rotation. The evidences for the fastest motion of Jupiter is it's gravity. Jupiter is the vacuum cleaner of planets or is having the highest gravity. The more the rotation the more the gravity. That's why Jupiter is having the highest rotational speed as it has the highest gravity.
Due to this we find the Jupiter is having the highest natural satellites. Also the asteroid belt is present between the Mars and Jupiter.
