Recent Examples of taxonomy from the Web. This question came courtesy of my son, who at 3-and-a-half, is a real underwater-creature taxonomy nerd. â , The Atlantic, 20 Questions With Google's Assistant and Apple's Siri, 18 May 2017. Below, a taxonomy of the basest impulses on display.
CONTINENTAL DRIFT. Go to an interactive plate tectonics puzzle. Go to a printable quiz on continental drift. In 1915, the German geologist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener first proposed the theory of continental drift, which states that parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core. The fossil record supports and gives credence to the theories of continental drift and plate tectonics.
Wind. LINKS. Continental Drift. The process by which the continents drift about the world is called plate tectonics. The movement of the Earth's plates, on which the continents ride, is very slow, being only a few centimetres each year.