Evidences (Part 2)

• Who was one of the contributors of the Heliocentric Theory?

  Galileo Galilei
• Alfred Wegener was the one who proposed the Continental Drift Theory.
• Wegener died in 1930 without his theory being accepted. Though, in 1950, his theory was accepted and became the foundation for plate tectonics theory.
• Paleontology is the study of the evolution of life on Earth as revealed by fossils.
• What are the remains of organisms that have been replaced by rock material, including traces of species like bacteria, fungus, and single-celled organisms?

  Fossils
• Lystrosaurus is a land dwelling reptile that lived during the Triassic Period. Dr. Elias Root Breadle discovered the first fossil of it.
• Cynognathus was a land dwelling reptile that lived during the Triassic Period and was founded by Harry Govier Seeley.
• Mesosaurus was a freshwater reptile that lived during the Permian Period; and Paul Gervais owned the first of its fossils.
• What is a seed-plant that lived during the Permian Period; Eduard Suess discovered the first known fossil of it?

  Glossopteris
• Glaciation is the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice.
• What are unsorted glacial debris that results from the material being eroded and entrained by a glacier's flowing ice?

  Glaciation Tills