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.
Continental drift takes place because continents sit on crustal plates which float on the Earth's magma, and the magma has convection currents in it which push against the plates and cause them to move, slowly but inexorably.