The Pacific Plate is moving to the northwest at a speed of between 7 and 11 centimeters (cm) or ~3-4 inches a year. The North American plate is moving to the west-southwest at about 2.3 cm (~1 inch) per year driven by the spreading center that created the Atlantic Ocean, the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
The two different organism reproduction is asexual which means that they can reproduce by them selves because they have both male and female parts. Sexual is when it takes two species of the opposite genders to have a offspring.
