Annemarie and her mother are worried Kirsti will innocently about what's really going on.
If earth was not a connecting system then the heat from its interior wouldn’t have effect on the tectonic plate at all. The heat from the interior causes the tectonic plates to shift, which effects the oceans sea floor and does cause volcanos to be created.
The authors' central claim in the passage "These Are the Days of Lasers in the Jungle" is that: (a) LiDAR's opponents have prevented the technology from advancing to a point where it might be scientifically useful, favoring traditional methods; (b) Fieldwork and LiDAR are best used in combination when mapping carbon in
