This lab assignment will help you analyze the plate boundaries, tectonic plates,

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This lab assignment will help you analyze the plate boundaries, tectonic plates, and areas associated with each. Also earthquakes (which are products of moving plates) will be analyzed. PART 1: PLATE BOUNDARY LOCATIONS For this part of the lab, you will answer questions about some of the major plate boundaries in the world. For each question, analyze the movement of the plate. Pacific Plabe South American - Plate Indo- Australian Plate 1) Look at the direction(s) of the South American Plate and African Plate. A) Are they diverging, converging, or moving parallel to each other? B) What direction is the South American Plate moving in? What direction is the African Plate moving in? 2) In which direction is the North American Plate moving in? At its current track, where will it eventually wind up? 3) If the North American plate is moving 0.5 inch a year, how far will it have moved in: 100 Years 1000 Years_ 10,000 Years 100,000 Years Convert this measurement to feet.

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South american and African plates are moving away from each other and this is called as divergence and they are diverging

South american plate is moving in the west direction and the African plate is moving in the east direction

North american plate is moving in north west direction and it will windup into Eurasian plate because earth is round

The north american plate is moving 0.5 inch per year means in feet it is 0.0416667 foot per year

So we can calculate for 100 years it is 4.16 ft and for 1000 years it is 41.6667 ft and for 10000 it is 416.667 ft and for 100000 it is 4166.67ft

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