Answer:
Explanation:
Geodesy, the science of measuring the Earth's shape and positions on it, allows the measurement of plate motion directly using GPS, the Global Positioning System. This network of satellites is more stable than the Earth's surface, so when a whole continent moves somewhere at a few centimeters per year, GPS can tell.
GPS uses a system of satellites to triangulate the position of a receiver anywhere on Earth. By using a network of receivers near plate boundaries, scientists can very accurately determine how the plates behave
Answer:
service or tourism industries
Explanation:
The majority of the people in South America are working in the service and tourism industries. The continent in general is very attractive for tourists, and there's hundreds of millions of tourists each year, so it is no wonder that the service and tourist industries have a lot of employees. South America has a very interesting culture, beautiful nature, lot of well preserved ancient architecture, world renowned manifestations, great weather, long beaches, festivals, the largest rainforest in the world. This attracts people of with all sorts of interests in the South America, which is helping the economy of the continent immensely.
The sea is drying up because of the heat of global warming
The cretaceous-tertiary mass extinction was apparently caused by a meteorite that struck Yucatan Peninsule in Mexico
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