Because peter the great had conquered the area formerly known as petrograd
If Antarctica has coal beds, and coal is formed from pressured carbon, then it indicates that Antarctica once had living organisms. Because living things are carbon based.
Because the earth is sphere
It melts. When it warms up the ice melts
It's plate tectonics, Earthquakes can be cause by ...
Destructive boundaries (where an oceanic plate goes under a continental plate which causes pressure to build up by friction, and when is released, causes an earthquake)
Or Conservative boundaries where 2 plates rub against each other causing pressure to build up and be released as an earthquake.
Volcanos can be made by...
constructive plate boundaries where 2 plates pull away from each other, leaving large cracks in the earth for magma to erupt.
As well as...
Hotspots which are on the plate itself not a boundary.