The North American plate is moving towards the west-southwest at about 2.3 centimeters every year mediated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the spreading center, which gave rise to the Atlantic Ocean. The small Juan De Fuca plate, moving east-northeast at 4 centimeters every year, was once a component of much greater oceanic plates known as the Farallon plate.
The Farallon plate used to comprise what is now the Cocos plate of Mexico and Central America, and the Juan de Fuca plate in the region from N. Vancouver Island to the Cape Mendicino California, and a big sea floor tract in between. However, the middle portion of the Old Farallon plate disappeared underneath North America, it was subducted underneath California leaving the San Andreas fault system behind as the contact between the Pacific plates and North America.
The Juan De Fuca plate is still actively subducting underneath North America. Its movement is not smooth, however, rather sticky. The buildup of strain takes place until the fault dissociates and a few meters of Juan De Fuca get slid underneath North America in a big earthquake.
The
Earth is composed of four different layers. Many geologists believe
that as the Earth cooled the heavier, denser materials sank to the
center and the lighter materials rose to the top. Because of this, the
crust is made of the lightest materials (rock- basalts and granites) and
the core consists of heavy metals (nickel and iron).
<span>The crust is the layer that you live on, and it is the most widely studied and understood. The mantle
is much hotter and has the ability to flow. The Outer and Inner Cores
are hotter still with pressures so great that you would be squeezed into
a ball smaller than a marble if you were able to go to the center of
the Earth!!!!!!</span>
Active sites in enzymes are where substrates bind. Once they bind, a catalytic reaction occurs as a complex between substrate and enzyme is formed. Enzymes are termed as biocatalysts or simply catalysts since they speed up the catalytic reaction. After the reaction, they simply revert back to their original form, after having adjusted to fit with substrate.
The answer to this question is: B) 3+
Answer:
Heat
Explanation:
Higher temperatures cause solid solutes to dissolve at a faster rate than normal
