Answer: Most of the world's volcanoes are found around the edges of tectonic plates, both on land and in the oceans. On land, volcanoes form when one tectonic plate moves under another. Usually a thin, heavy oceanic plate subducts, or moves under, a thicker continental plate.
The name given the movement in which machines changed peoples way of life as well as their methods of manufacturing
Answer:
D. were widespread due to many low-lying land masses.
Explanation:
Cambrian Period was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, it occurred between two ice ages; Proterozoic and Ordovician. During these era, there were mass extinctions due to the decrease in global temperature.
Cambrian seas were widespread due to many low-lying land masses.
Answer:
There are several tectonic provinces collectively called as crystalline providences.
Explanation:
- The geology of Appalachians consists of Blue Ridge, Piedmont, Adirondack, and the New England providences. They are known as Crystalline provinces.
- The sinking of the oceans continued about 270 million year ago due to which a huge mass of rocks was pushed westwards along the margins of North America and piled up to form the mountains.
- The Sierra Nevada is the youngest mountain range on the west coast of the United States.
Answer:
The last one
Explanation:
An absolute location is an exact place on Earth, often given in terms of latitude and longitude.