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.
Over a vast period of time, the continents drifted apart to their current locations. Alfred Wegener first supported continental drift. Wegenerâs explanation of continental drift in 1912 was that drifting occurred because of the earthâs rotation. This explanation and his theory were not widely accepted.