Land, Life, and Health in Africa

In 1596- Abraham Ortelius took note that the coastlines of the continents seemed to be too fitting together. He initiated a theory that stated that the continents were probably joined at one point in time and were torn apart between Europe and Africa. In the year of 1912, Alfred Wegener stated that the continents were once joined in a supercontinent called Pangea.

The theory of the continental drift is that the continents have slowly drifted to their current location. Alfred Wegener believed that all the seven continents were once a supercontinent known as Pangea. A discovery that came from climate clues like glacial deposits in South America, Africa, Australia and India. Rock and fossils matching evidence found in South America and Africa.

The theory of Pangaea suggests that the continents were once stuck together into one huge continent. Eventually they started drifting into separated landmasses, which gave birth to the modern continents.

Bell, M. K. (2013). Raising Africa?: celebrity and the rhetoric of the white savior. Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 10, no 1, January 2013. ISS: 1449-2490; http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal

Why does the Earth have different continents? A informative documentary by The New York Time named “Animated Life: Pangea” shows us that a scientist had an idea of continental drift. It reveal to us that all the trouble he went through to prove his idea is correct instead of just saying something and not proving it since the idea was rejected once. This documentary showed us that all the evidence that Alfred Wegener found during his discoveries such as same fossil found in different continent and continental fitment. This documentary mostly focus on the courage of Alfred Wegener because how much he been through to find out this theory.

The sub-Saharan region of Africa has traditionally been seen by the Western world as a barrier between the more "civilized" areas of the northern part of the continent that were colonized by Europeans and the deep, jungle regions common to the rest of the continent. The area below the Sahara desert was seen by colonial settlers as wild and dangerous. It was treated as its own separate entity, but in reality, this is not the case at all. Sub-Saharan Africa is very diversified in terms of ethnicities, languages, economics, politics, religion, and more. While it may still not be as industrialized as the northern part of Africa (with the exception of the country of South Africa), it is a very vibrant, diverse, and intriguing region of the world. In fact, the African Union prefers that the Sahara desert be seen as a bridge between northern and southern Africa, and not a barrier between two different worlds. In fact, the Sahara desert itself and its harsh climate and landscape, which makes it difficult to traverse it, has been the main reason for the prevailing view of there being two Africas. Until recently, interaction between the two regions was not an easy or common thing, precisely because of the Sahara desert itself sitting in the middle of the continent.

After reading the article, “Continents Adrift”, we learn that our planet is constantly changing, and that this change has to do with continental drift. As noted on page 196, “About 250 million years ago, most of the land on Earth was clumped together. Instead of the seven continents, there was a single large landmass called Pangaea. Over time, Pangaea split apart.” The idea that the continents are drifting or moving apart has been studied by scientists since the late 1700s. For instance, scientists such as Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon and Alfred Wegener theorized that continents were drifting apart. Although these scientists had the right idea, people did not believe them because their proof wasn’t strong enough. As more scientists

What can be so appealing about the continent Africa? Well it has been studied that Africa has many resources such as wheat, millet, ivory, copper, metals, routes, basins, and most importantly, its unlimited availability of strong laborers (pgs. 44-45). These are resources that are useful in early trade markets that added to wealth as well as the distribution of power. These resources are abundant in Africa and it is not surprising that the group of countries who wanted it the most were European countries. This imperial power mostly lay in the hands of the French Empire and Great British.

GEOLOGIC ASSOCIATION, FRANKFURT- Wegener has startled scientists with his discovery of Pangaea. According to him, he believes that all the continents were once joined together as one land mass. Then apparently, it started to “drift” apart as years went on.

The first part of this process is to be believed to be the separation and rifting of an older continent. The continued widening

During this period, Gondwana and Euramerica formed Pangea. The collision of tectonic plates caused volcanic activity. This ended up forming the Urals, Alps, Appalachians, and Rocky Mountains. Pangea was shaped like the letter “C”. The northern landmasses would become Europe and Asia. North and South America formed from the curved part of the “C.” India, Australia, and Antarctica made up the lower part of the land mass. In this landmass was the Tethys Ocean. There were also glaciers in

As in the case of other areas in East Africa, the dominant land tenure system

This passage, "Continental Drift", explains what continental drift is, evidence to support it and plate tectonics. Alfred Wegener and Frank Taylor suggested a theory that at one point in time, all the continents were one very large continent called Pangea in 1912. This giant supercontinent was surrounded by one large ocean called Panthalassa.

Throughout time, scientists have discovered new ways to help save lives and help people live longer, but this causes a major problem around the world. Birth rates are almost double to that of the death rates, and the earth’s population is reaching the seven billion mark. Continents everywhere worry about what is to come with the rising population because it is causes many resources to deplete and diseases to spread. These very problems are already occurring on the continent of Africa.. In Africa, overpopulation is causing an immense amount of disease to spread more competently due to the close living quarters and a lack of clean water.

Throughout history, scientists have made several theories about every scientific issue. There have been arguments and rebuttals to every theory from creation to lost civilizations. One theory that has survived is that of the continental drift, which theorizes that the continents as we know them today once were combined to form larger land masses. Those land masses then split apart and moved from tectonic plate shifting into what we know today (Abbott 2013). A well known scientist and large supporter of this theory was the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener (Abbott 2013). Around the close of the First World War, Wegener published his findings supported by samples of fossils and rocks. These samples were collected from opposing sides of the