With respect to the movement of crustal plates in the vicinity of the Andes Mountains: Why is the oceanic plate diving beneath South America? How is this related to the orogenesis (or formation of mountains) of the Andes? Explain.
What will be an ideal response?
Sea-floor spreading is causing the Pacific Plate to subduct below the South American plate.
You might also like to view...
The evidence for the geologic history of plate motions on Earth prior to about 180 million years ago comes entirely from evidence found on continents and not from rocks found in the oceans. Explain why this evidence is restricted to continents
What will be an ideal response?
Do you know immigrants who have returned or want to return to their home country? List push or pull factors that might influence their decision
What will be an ideal response?
Using the above map, observe that in the following countries, less than half of the people live in urban areas:
Many of the civil wars in Central Africa are based on __________.
a. political control b. civil unrest c. ethnic conflict d. all of these e. control over valuable resources