Answer:
a. It creates a pattern of alternating rock stripes on both sides of a mid-ocean ridge.
Explanation:
Seafloor spreading is the theory that the oceanic lithospheric plates are in constant motion just as continental drift occurs.
When oceanic plates collide, the denser subducts under the less dense one, causing a destruction of oceanic lithosphere.
However, during seafloor spreading, a rift in the ocean can spill out some of the partially melted subducted rock. When the magma cools, there is an alternation in the magnetic variation of rocks formed by the series of volcanic action that has occurred underwater.
The variation shows younger rocks closer to the mid-oceanic ridge formed in the process. This variation is measured and compared to confirm that sea floor spreading has actually occurred.
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The organism that could be considered as an example of a nekton is: Dolphin
Nekton is aquatic animals that have the capability to move independently within water currents.
Nektons are able to do this because they've developed their own unique mechanism to detect their own way within the currents (such as using biosonar or Antenne)
#3). Your drawing in the lower right corner is correct. You're headed down the right road, but ran out of gas and just stopped.
Radius of the circle = 1.5 km
Circumference of the whole circle = (2·π·radius) = 9.42 km
Distance = 3/4 of the way around it = 7.07 km .
Displacement = the straight line from the West point to the North point. The straight-line length is 2.12 km; the straight-line direction from start to finish is Northeast (45°). I'll let you figure out why these numbers.
#4). What if you walk 1 mile East and then 1 mile West ? You got a good workout, and you're back home where you started ! Your distance is 2 miles, and your displacement is zero.
The whale had a good workout too. She swam (6.9 + 1.8 + 3.7) = 12.4 km. She's sweating and tired. Her total distance during that workout is 12.4 km.
Her displacement is the line from start-point to end-point. How she got there doesn't matter, so swimming 1 km East and then swimming 1 km West cancel out, and have no effect on the displacement.
(6.9E + 1.8W + 3.7E) = (10.6 E) + (1.8 W) . . . That adds up to 8.8 East ! That's where she ends up. That's her displacement ... 8.8 km East of where she started. Since we're only talking about displacement, we don't care HOW she got there. She might have been swimming big 20-km circles all day. We don't know. All we know is that she ended up 8.8 km East of where she started.