<span>The Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, and other rivers knit together the American nation over the course of a century. In an era before widespread highways and railroads, the farms and industries of the Midwest poured their goods downriver to markets around the world. The boomtowns of the century—New Orleans, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and many others—thrived and grew on this waterborne commerce. Waterways were so valuable that the nation began building them. The Erie Canal was one.</span>
The temperature of the planet is greatly affected by the distance it has from the sun.
So is the planet's climate and difference in temperature when it is nighttime as opposed to day time.
I guess it depends on the type of dog; larger dogs tend to live shorter than smaller ones. A statistical average would be between 10-13 years.
Explanation:
The plastic movement of the mantle material moves like the flow of mountain glaciers, carrying the lithospheric plates along as the convection movement in the mantle moves the asthenosphere.