how do plates tectonics relate to the formation of new species?

Question

just how it relates?

Answer 1

Well, imagine you are in this little island were it is very hot all year long. You live with 50 people, but after a very violent movement in the tectonic plates the little island separates and part of it goes to the very cold region, and the other part goes to an even hotter region. After years and years...the life that was in the cold region had become used to live inthere. They have developed mechanisms for survival and everything. The same happenend in the hot region. The movement of these plates generates new variations of species, due to the adaptation process they go though in order to survive.

Answer 2

If you're talking about when the Earth was all joined together like Pangaea, then it might have been the change of climate when the plates moved to diffrent places on the Earth. It could also be because some species that were in the middle of the fault were separated and one became more diffrent than the other.

Answer 3

Allopatric speciation. The actual separation of a species by geographic means. Plate tectonics could lead to a mountain range being erected, for example.

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Answer 4

At one point the continents were all hooked together and through plate motions, they have split apart into separate bodies, so to speak. They say that the isolation of the animals that were on the big land mass and the different conditions that the animals had to face (due to the latitude that the plates settled at) caused the animals to mutate (through evolution/survival of the fittest) to form new species.

The isolation theory is how biologists explain the unique species of the Galapagos islands.

Answer 5

When the continents were all one big Pangea, there was not as much variety in species. When the continents drifted apart, it created different climates and geologies, and species evolved to meet the needs of their new environments, creating new species and more diversity.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

formation of new species?
this is retarded lol
plate tectonics form ridges, mountains, volcanoes and such
how the hell would u expect 2 large pieces of rock to make a living species?

Answer 8

Hardly at all.