Which weather event is typically brief, contains very strong winds, and leaves a path of destruction up to 50 miles long? a cyclone, a hurricane, a thunderstorm, a tornado

Tornado

Explanation:

A cyclone can last on average for 9 days depending upon the forces of wind leading to the decay of the things. It typically effects an area of  typically 30–65 km (20–40 miles). They are characterized by rotating winds around an area of low pressure.

It is a form of cyclone called a Tropical cyclone. It is characterized by heavy thunderstorms where winds circulate in a counterclockwise towards the center of earth. These vigorous winds destruct an area of 50 to 100 miles from the point of their origin. They can last from 12 to 24 hours depending upon the speed of wind.

A thunderstorm is a weather event that can manifest itself in different forms like lightning, Thunder and strong wind, rain, snow. It is a broad term that covers many events like Tornadoes, Floods,Cloud-to-ground lightning and hailing. Depending upon intensity the damage path of a thunderstorm can be from few miles to hundreds of miles.

A Tornado is a specific form of thunderstorm that are characterized by strong, rapidly rotating winds that damages a path from one to fifty miles. They last for less than ten minutes so we can say their duration is less than other deadly weather events.

Therefore, Tornado is best option.

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.

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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.

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