Describe how plants evolved from water-living organisms to organisms that live on land. critical thinking

In order to have a critical thinking question you need to have the following elements

Ex: Did Romeo and Juliet experience true love?

1.  There is no correct answer.  You cannot say that “No, Romeo and Juliet did not experience true love,” and be wrong.  The idea is that you pick a side based on criteria that was set as to what “true love” really is.

2.  Each question needs an element that will require a set of criteria to be established first before you can answer it.  What is true love?  What does it mean to be influential?  What constitutes a devastating impact?  What goes into an economic decision?

3.  The final answer must be JUSTIFIED according to the criteria that was set out to come to an appropriate conclusion.  You can’t just say, “Yes Romeo and Juliet were truly in love,” and leave it at that.  You have to explain WHY you think that based on the criteria.

Its basically your own opinion. have fun, explore, make your best educated guess on how they moved from sea to land! :)

b, acidosis

acidosis is when the human body attempts to return the bloods ph levels back to normal when the blood is acidic

from almost the creation of the first true maps of the earth, people started seeing how continents would be able to fit together.   in particular, people noticed that south america fits almost exactly into africa.

you should be aware that while world maps were around early in the 1600’s and better defined by the end of the 1700’s, those maps were not ‘public’ but were treated as state secrets.   and so it was not till much later that the broader ‘science’ community had access to good quality and accurate world maps.

get the whole story here…

it is now known that most of the major continental masses can be fit together in a jigsaw process.   in fact we now know that the continents were indeed once all joined together as one land mass – the supercontinent of pangaea.

if you look at most world maps you will ponder how this is evidence, as the continents really don’t appear to ‘fit’ together very well.   what you need to understand is that the vast majority of maps are drawn using a map projection that has the north and south poles (which are points) are a line the width of the map at the top and bottom.   this means that the map distorts the true shape of the earth’s land and oceans as you love closer to the poles.     some other map projections distort less, but have the map shape looking like segments of an orange.   see here for a range of map projections.   check out the way greenland changes size in each!

what is more remarkable, is the next piece of evidence when added to the shape of continents.

location of mountains and fossils

what is remarkable, when you reassemble all the continents together, the ancient mountain ranges (many now eroded to their cores) and the location of rock types and fossils all match up.