Forests(because of trees, water, and other plants and animals living there.)
Pacific mountain system, series of mountain ranges that stretches along the Pacific Ocean coast of North America from northern British Columbia (Canada) to northwestern Mexico. They run for some 4,500 miles (7,250 km) in the United States and extend northward into Canada for another 1,000 miles (1,600 km).
Located mainly in zones of crustal activity because these zones are often lithospheric plate boundaries
A planet in motion remains in a stable orbit around the sun mainly because of two things: the nature of the gravitational force and because virtually no other forces act on the planet. The momentum of a planet changes during its orbit but not, in general, its inertia -- which relates solely to its mass.
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Synoptic means "view together" or "view at a common point". A synoptic weather map shows weather patterns over a large area by putting together many weather reports from different locations all taken at the same moment in time.