Because seamounts rests on the pacific plate and they also move because of resting on the Hawaiian hotspot drift.
Answer:
The plates will collide in 50,000,000 years.
Explanation:
The tectonic plates are constantly moving. Their movement results in some of them to collide, thus to form convergent plate boundaries. In this case, we have two plates that are relatively far away and the movement is about the average. In order to find out how many years will be needed for the plates to collide we need to:
- convert the km into cm
- divide the distance (in cm) between the plates with the rate of movement of the plate
1 km = 100,000 cm
100,000 x 1,500 = 150,000,000 cm
150,000,000 / 3 = 50,000,000 years
We get a result of 50 million years, meaning the plates will collide in this much time, which in geological terms is actually not that long.
Commercial farming includes all of the following except b) shifting cultivation. This is because commercial farming is a system of farming where the production is characterized by innovations designed to increase yield, which includes technology such as tractors and machinery and speeding up the production of agriculture such as the use of pesticides and hybridized seeds.
Answer:
Shadow zones exist because the materials that make up Earth's interior are not uniform in rigidity. When seismic waves travel through materials of different rigidity, they change in both speed and direction. S waves do not reach the S wave shadow zone because cannot pass through the liquid outer core.
Explanation:
Landforms created by deposition. Deposition occurs when the sea has less energy , in sheltered bays. longshore drift is the process of transportation that shifts eroded material along the coastlines.