The Museum of West Namibia wants to know if the Mesosaurus fossils were separated in one or a series of quick, huge movements, or if the separation was the result of slow and steady movement. Given what you learned today, which of the claims below seems best supported? Why? What questions do you still have? Write your response to these questions below, using words from the Word Bank. Claim 1: The South American Plate and African Plate moved apart suddenly.

Claim 2: The South American Plate and African Plate moved apart gradually.

Word Bank

mantle

outer layer

pattern

plate

plate boundary

rate

An engineer designs a roller coaster so that a car travels horizontally for 162 ft, then climbs 127 ft at an angle of 31.0° above the horizontal. it then moves 127 ft at an angle of 46.0° below the horizontal. if we take the initial horizontal motion of the car to be along the +x-axis, what is the car's displacement? (give the magnitude of your answer, in ft, to at least four significant figures and give the direction of your answer in degrees counterclockwise from the +x-axis.)

Which is not one of the major climate zones? question 3 options: rain forest polar tropical temperate

Askydiver weighing 140 lb (including equipment) falls vertically downward from an altitude of 19,000 ft and opens the parachute after 18 s of free fall. assume that the force of air resistance, which is directed opposite to the velocity, is of magnitude 0.55|v| when the parachute is closed and is of magnitude 14|v| when the parachute is open, where the velocity v is measured in ft/s. assume that acceleration due to gravity has magnitude 32 ft/s/s; remember that weight is the product of mass and gravitational acceleration. (a) find the speed of the skydiver when the parachute opens. (b) find the distance fallen before the parachute opens. (c) what is the limiting velocity vl after the parachute opens? (d) determine how long the sky diver is in the air after the parachute opens. (e) plot the graph of velocity versus time from the beginning of the fall until the skydiver reaches the ground.