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Continents shift at about the same rate as your fingernails grow.
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Ninety percent of Earth's population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.
4. California has more people than all of Canada.
Australia is wider than the moon.
In areas where the plates come together, sometimes volcanoes will form. Volcanoes can also form in the middle of a plate, where magma rises upward until it erupts on the seafloor, at what is called a “hot spot.” The Hawaiian Islands were formed by such a hot spot occurring in the middle of the Pacific Plate.