1. 1勞亞古陸(北方古大陸;南邊那塊是岡瓦納大陸 Gondwana)

    Laurasia is the name give to the great northern of the ancient world. The story goes like this: about 300 million years ago nearly all land on Earth was joined in one supercontinent, . Around 200 million years ago began to split, and it split into two — Laurasia in the north and Gondwana (or ) in the south. Laurasia later broke apart again into what we now call North America, Europe, and most of Asia, plus . So when scientists explain why the same kinds of old fossils turn up in Canada and in Scotland, Laurasia is the answer: those places were once one piece of ground. It is a proper noun, so it always takes a capital L, and it takes no "the" — you say "Laurasia broke apart", not "the Laurasia". The word belongs to geology, geography, and school science; it is not an everyday word, but any student reading about dinosaurs or continental drift will meet it.

組成A blend of two names: Lauren(tia) + (Eur)asia. Laurentia is the geologists' name for the ancient core of North America — named after the St Lawrence River region in Canada — and Eurasia is Europe plus Asia. So the name literally packs together the two halves of what the continent became.

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  • Eurasiathe second half of the blend: Europe + Asia
  • Pangaeanot a shared word-part, but the single supercontinent Laurasia split off from

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

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    geographygeologynatural-sciencesA supercontinent which included most of the landmasses making up today's continents of the Northern Hemisphere.

    • A diverse collection of ankylosaurs once roamed in great numbers across Laurasia — the northern supercontinent that once contained North America and Asia.

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