Sentence examples for large landmass from inspiring English sources

"New Zealand was the last large landmass on earth to be colonized," he told me one day, as we zipped along through the midsection of the North Island.

For example, in the United States the weather is far easier to forecast because the country forms part of a very large landmass".

The last time New Zealand was within swimming distance of another large landmass was not long after it broke free from Australia, eighty million years ago.

Judging from modern conditions, a single large landmass such as Pangea would be expected to experience an extreme, strongly seasonal continental climate with hot summers and cold winters.

By the time of the Archean-Proterozoic boundary, about 2.5 billion years ago, many small cratons (stable interior portions of continents) dominated by island arcs had coalesced into one large landmass, or supercontinent, that some scholars refer to as Kenorland.

Being big is an advantage in a habitat with a large landmass of lots of vegetation, although it can make species vulnerable to sudden extinction if the environment changes rapidly.

Immigration becomes frenzied, with large landmasses impossible to border control.

A continental climate, associated with large landmasses and characterized by an extreme annual range of temperature, prevails over a large part of Asia.

In the summer, large landmasses in the subtropics tend to be centres of relative low pressure as a result of strong solar heating.

As the winds travel from areas of higher pressure to areas of lower pressure, a persistent onshore flow develops over large landmasses in the lower troposphere.

The assembly of the various large landmasses into the supercontinent of Pangea led to global warming and the development of dry to arid climates during Permian times.