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.
Alfred Wegener, early in the twentieth century, was the first, leading, scientific proponent of continental drift. He marshaled geometric, paleontological, paleoclimatic, and geological evidence to support continental drift; but his ideas were largely rejected in England and the United States.