Which of the following best explains why Earth is tectonically active?
A. Areas of Earth's solid surface layer are thicker and so heavier than other areas.
B. Areas of Earth's solid surface layer are under great pressure from ocean water.
C. Earth's solid surface layer sits on a moving, semiliquid layer.
D. Earth's solid surface layer rotates more rapidly than the layers beneath it.

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Answer 1

Answer:

C. Earth's solid surface layer sits on a moving, semiliquid layer.

Explanation:

Earth is highly tectonically active because the solid layer of the earth sits on a moving, semi-liquid layer.

The earth's crust is broken into slabs. Together with part of the upper mantle, they form a layer called the lithosphere. These solid lithospheric bodies are called tectonic plates.

Under the plates is a semi-molten layer under great temperature. As the molten layer moves, it carries the lithosphere on top of it. This causes the movement of the plates in different directions. The semi-liquid layer is called the asthenosphere

This is the reason why the earth is tectonically active.


Related Questions

What is one factor that adds to the greenhouse effect 1.A decrease in the amount of dust in the atmosphere 2. A decrease in the amount of water on earth surface 3. An increase in gases in the earths atmosphere that absorb heat 4.An increase in the amount of solar radiation that reflects into space

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Answer:

Option 3 i.e. An increase in gases in the earths atmosphere that absorb heat.

Answer:

C

Explanation:

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Which desert covers half of Uzbekistan?

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Answer:

The Aral Sea is situated in Central Asia, between the Southern part of Kazakhstan and Northern Uzbekistan.

Explanation:

Which one is false? The average employee in Tokyo commutes(travels) 90 mins to work No car can be registered in Tokyo without proof that the owner has a place to park it. The Japanese train and subway system is so advanced that the Japanese buy fewer cars today than in 1960

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Answer:

The Japanese train and subway system is so advanced that the Japanese buy fewer cars today than in 1960

Explanation:

The Tokyo subway is a part of the rapid transit system that includes Tokyo Metro and the Toei Subway which is in Greater Tokyo area of Japan.

The following statement is false:

The Japanese train and subway system is so advanced that the Japanese buy fewer cars today than in 1960

Most Southeast Asians work in the ______ industry.

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the land of smiles

a romantic opera in three acts by Franz lehar

6. Which of these items is not among a geologist's equipment?
A. goggles
B. magnifying glasses
C. gloves
D. geometrids

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Hello, The answer is D

the following sentence correct or not :they treated them roughly​

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I'm not sure if you're asking if the sentence is grammatically correct but if so then yes. But I will say that  if a reader only sees that sentence they would be confused on who they or them was since it doesn't provide background information. so in that sense it could be wrong since it confuses the reader on the subjects of the sentence. but thats only if your're trying to identify the noun of the sentence if yk what i mean

Compare and contrast 2D and 3D maps
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Answer:

Alright.

Explanation:

'2D and 3D refer to the actual dimensions in a computer workspace. 2D is "flat", using the horizontal and vertical (X and Y) dimensions, the image has only two dimensions and if turned to the side becomes a line. 3D adds the depth (Z) dimension.'

Basically, 2D maps are flat (like paper), and 3D maps are not (like a globe).

Explain the reason why when you find one angle you can find the remaining angles. ​

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Answer: if you find two angles of a triangle you can find the remaining angle because they all add up to 180 degrees, so you can add the two angles together and the difference between 180 and the sum of the two angles is the measurement of the missing angle. Hope this helped :)

Explanation:

Answer:

Explanation:

The opposite angle is the same as the known angle. Each of the adjacent angles is the supplementary angle to the known angle. That is the pair add up to 180 degrees

The eruption of Mt. St. Helens was due to?
O a. Earthquake
O b. Volcano
O c. Hot Spot
O d. Transform Boundary

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Answer:

Earthquake

Explanation:

After two months of earthquakes and small explosions, Mount St. Helens cataclysmically erupted

What economic activity level are they
- Belarus
-Cuba
-Mexico
-Iceland
-Japan
-Kuwait
-Mali
-Bhutan
-Thailand
-USA

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Belarus- 72nd
Cuba- statistics
Mexico- statistics
Iceland- mixes with high levels of free trade
Japan- 3rd
Kuwait- highest....
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Explain what differentiates the Earth’s crust and lithosphere.

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Answer:

The curst is the

thin layer of distinctive chemicals composition overlying the ultramafic upper mantle. The lithosphere is rigid outer layer of the earth required by plate tectonic theory.

Explanation:

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Answer:

Earth’s crust is distinguished from the lithosphere because the crust refers to a compositional later and the lithosphere is a mechanical layer, the solid layer near the surface of the Earth. The crust is mostly composed of alumino-silicate minerals while the lithosphere includes some of the solid regions of the upper mantle which is mostly ferro-magnesium silicates.

Explanation:

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How did the way the Persian government handled religion throughout the empire help preserve social and political order?

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Answer:

In the Persian Empire, since the period of Achaemenid dynasty there was an existing principle of religious tolerance, that was spread throughout the whole country.

Explanation:

Even during the reign of Cyrus the Great, who was the first important ruler of the Empire a religious tolerance was established. He was known in history as a ruler who freed Jews from Babylonian captivity, but also as someone who brought edict throughout the country in which a principle of tolerance dominated. This was continued during the period of his successors.

Which example is a body fossil?


A. shrimp burrow


B. dinosaur bone


C. an ornithopod track


D. dinosaur footprint

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Answer:

B. dinosaur bone

Explanation:

A dinosaur bone was part of the dinosaur's body during the prehistoric times, so therefore it's body fossil.

Look at the map. The area labeled A indicates a subduction zone where the
Pacific Plate is sliding under South America. Which process is likely to occur
in this area?
D
Eurasian
Plate
North
American
Plate
Pacific
Caribbean
Plate
Plate
Philippine
Plato B
Cocos
Plate
Ring
of
Fire
A
Indo-Australian
Plate
Nazca
Plate
South
American
Plate
Antarctic
Plate

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Answer:

Oceanic plate being destroyed

Explanation:

The convergence at this margin between the oceanic pacific plate and the Continental South American plate causes subduction here.

At this margin, there is crustal destruction.

As the denser Pacific plate subducts under the less dense continental crust, it is increasingly destroyed. Most convergent margin of this type leads to the destruction of the crust. Usually, on an adjacent side, there is a mountain building. Basically, at this margin, the most important thing is that the crust is being destroyed.

Which of the following statements about volcanoes is false?
Falling ash from volcanic eruptions can cause great destruction.
Volcanoes can change global patterns of climate
Volcanoes can build mountains.
Volcanic ash has serious effects on local areas but does not have a global impact.

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Answer:

volcanos can change global patterns of climate is false

Here are some milestones in the development of technology used by geographers. Put them in the order in which they appeared in history.

Astrolabe
Camera
Navigational compass
Map​

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Answer:

Correct answer is:

Map

Astrolabe

Navigational compass

Camera

Explanation:

Earliest maps that we know of were made in Ancient Greece in the 6th Century BC, while first astrolabe was made in the 2nd Century BC. Of course, later they have developed more.

First compasses were created in China in 11th Century, while modern navigational compass was created in 19th Century.

Of course, camera is a modern technology that came at the end.

What evidence, first published by Abraham Ortelius, supports Alfred
Wegener's theory of continental drift?
A. Similar animals live in different parts of the world.
B. Sensitive instruments measure plate movement.
C. Faraway places share similar fossils.
D. The coasts of South America and Africa fit together.

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Answer:

Abraham Ortelius put forward as evidence for the theory of continental drift the fact that the coasts of South America and Africa fit together.

Explanation:

A is not correct because the animals that live in the present would hardly prove anything when it comes to continental drift.

B is not correct because such instruments didn't exist during the time of Ortelius.

C is not correct because this was not a piece of evidence put out by Ortelius, but it was Wegener that did that.

D is correct because Ortelius based his theory around the shapes of the continents and that their edges seemed to fit, with the eastern coastline of South America and western coastline of Africa being the most noticeable example.

Identify two accomplishments of Ashoka.
Extended the influence of
Hinduism
Expanded the Mauryan
Empire
Founded the Mauryan
Empire
Extended the influence of
Buddhism

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Answer:

Correct answers are Expanded the Mauryan  Empire  and Extended the influence of  Buddhism.

Explanation:

Ashoka wasn't the founder of the dynasty, that was his grandfather, but expanded it to its greatness in the 3rd Century BC. He was not a tolerant leader, but in one moment he had religious enlightenment, after which he embraced Buddhism and spread this religion across the country.

Why is the distance between two meridians at the North Pole 0 miles?

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Answer:

They are meeting at the North Pole. the North Pole & South Pole are the only places where lines of longitude meet and the distance is 0 miles.

Explanation:

Unlike parallels, which are always parallel to each other, meridians converge as they approach the poles. This causes a degree of longitude to vary from approximately 69 statute miles at the Equator (a great circle) to 0 miles at the poles.

5. As Islam spread to Sub-Saharan Africa by the 9th
century, wealthy elites became the first local
adherents, but ordinary people only converted slowly
if at all from native religions. This phenomenon
illustrates the process of
(A) contagious diffusion
(B) stimulus diffusion
(C) hierarchical diffusion
(D) relocation diffusion
(E) migrant diffusion

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Answer:

The manner in which Islam has initially been spreading in sub-Saharan Africa can be described as hierarchical diffusion.

Explanation:

A is not correct because this type of diffusion is characterized by a distance controlled spreading of ideas, where a local population is used to spread it from person to person.

B is not correct because this type of diffusion is characterized by modifying the original ideas in accordance with one's views and perceptions.

C is correct because this type of diffusion is the one where it is the people of high authority that first take the step and adopt the ideas and the people accept them because their rulers did, or may not accept them at all.

D is not correct because this type of diffusion is characterized by relocating a population in order to influence another population to accept certain ideas.

E is not correct because this type of diffusion is characterized by a large group of people migrating and spreading the idea as they settle in a particular area.

Question 2
During a tectonic plate demonstration, a teacher pushes two pieces of clay together. What kind of plate boundary was the teacher demonstrating?
A
convergent
B
earthquake
С
equator
D
divergent

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Answer:

A. convergent

Explanation:

"Tectonic plates" are very important when it comes to studying the Earth. It moves in different directions every year. There are particularly three types of movements or plate boundaries (convergent, divergent and transform).

When the tectonic plates move away from each other, it is called "divergent." When they move towards each other, it is called "convergent," just like what the teacher demonstrated above. Pushing the two pieces of clay together means she's showing the movement of the tectonic plates towards each other. When the plates slide past each other, it is called "transform."

Name human factors influencing borders?

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Answer:

These factors of shape and size can influence the ways in which human activity is structured; for example, land use, transportation, and settlement patterns. Sometimes the shape and size suggest that a country may want to expand its borders in order to increase its size, change its shape, and/or control more resources.

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A 30 foot ladder is leaned against a wall.
If the base of the ladder is 6 feet from the
wall, how high up the wall will the ladder reach?

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Answer: 90

Explanation:

= 1/2 x 30 x 6

= 1/2 x 180

after simplifying them you get 90ft.

Therefore, the ladder will reach 90ft high up the wall.

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After the Mexican Revolution, the new government promised "land, bread, and justice for all." What does this slogan tell you about the living conditions of the people before the revolution?

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Answer: This tells you that the mexican people were likley living in famine, being treated poorly and didn't have property of their own.

Explanation:

What do Earthquakes allow scientists to do?

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Answer:

Earthquakes allow scientists to read the seismic movement of the earth's crust. Not sure tho.

___ turn rocks into soil.

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Answer:

Rocks turn into soil through the process of weathering. Weathering is when rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.

Explanation:

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Answer:

Weathering and Erosion

Explanation:

Weathering happens when plants break up rocks with their growing roots or plant acids dissolving rock. Once the rock has been weakened and broken up by weathering it is ready for erosion. Erosion happens when rocks and sediments are picked up and moved to another place by ice, water, wind or gravity.

A large city that is often the center of a state or empire is called a __________.
A.
county
B.
village
C.
kingdom
D.
metropolis

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Answer:

Correct answer: D. Metropolis

Explanation:

I took the quiz on edge 2020 and D was correct

what three tetonic plates are found along the prime merdian?​

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Answer:

eurasian, african, antarctic

Explanation:

African American eurasian

b) What is the formuls to calculate the perimeter of triangle​

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Answer: P=a+b+c

Explanation:

Answer:

b

Explanation:

Base+side+side=perimeter

Tolerance of conquered people
• Built a road system
Practiced Zoroastrianism
which empire is best described by this list?
A Macedonian
B Persian
C Roma
D Egyptian

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Answer:

The correct answer is B Persian .

Explanation:

B is the correct answer, because it is the only country where Zoroastrianism was the official religion in the Persian Empire. Even during the reign of Cyrus religious liberties were established, and the whole country was well-connected.

All other answers are wrong, as this countries didn't have Zoroastrianism as official religion. Of course, for examples Roman built roads, Macedonian Empire was one of the world's most tolerant empire, but only B is the correct answer here.

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