That’s called Compounding.
B. The uppermost part of the mantle is made up of the tectonic plates.
I would say that when two continental plates collide then it is common for mountains sometimes very high to be pushed up by the collision such as the Himalayas by the squeezing between the Indian sub-continent and China.
The space shuttle is a space transportation system, the term denoting the shuttles developed and operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It carried astronauts and cargo to and from Earth orbit.
The following are experienced by a space shuttle in orbit:
- gravity
- inertia
- centripetal force