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This 3 page paper answers some basic questions about geology and the earth's weather systems. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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tectonic plates move? The simple answer here is: because we have earthquakes. The two are directly connected. The earths interior is still cooling, and much of it is liquid magma.
The tectonic plates float on this magma, coming together at various boundaries around the world. "They are not evenly distributed; the boundaries between the plates grind against each other, producing
most earthquakes" (Louie, 2001). And because we have earthquakes, we know that the plates move. How did ancient civilizations explain volcanoes and earthquakes? Most ancient cultures, obviously, had no way
of scientifically explaining natural phenomena like earthquakes and volcanoes, so they turned instead to mythological or supernatural causes. These happenings were often believed to be the work of gods or
similar beings; the early Greeks believed that Zeus threw thunderbolts when he was angry, for example. By what process does the amount of water on Earth change from year to
year? What is the magnitude of this change from year to year? The total amount of water on Earth does not change, according to the U.S. Geological Survey; but it
exists in widely varying forms and amounts at different places on the planet (Bramer). However, there is what is called a "hydrological cycle" at work that circulates water throughout the
world. A never-ending process, it begins when water evaporates from the oceans surfaces and rises into the atmosphere, where it cools and forms clouds (Bramer). It then falls back
to the ground as rain where one of two things occurs: it evaporates back into the atmosphere or it stays on the surface to become groundwater (Bramer). Groundwater either
finds its way back to the ocean, or goes back into the atmosphere through a process called "transpiration"-the "transfer of water to the atmosphere by plants and vegetation" (Bramer). The
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