Crustal plates scrape and slide past each other along faults at their boundaries. for example, the pacific and north american plates slide past each other along the san andreas fault in northern california.
what natural hazard usually results when crustal plates scrape and slide past one another?
a.
hurricanes
b.
tsunamis
c.
tornadoes
d.
earthquakes

Earthquaques

Explanation:

Crustal plates are extremely heavy and thus impose tremendous pressure on adjacent plates, however they don't immediately slide past each other. Rather, tension is built up as time progresses and the pressure continues, until it is released and the plates slide rather abruptly to find their new position. The process starts over again because the plates do not stop moving. The internal heat in the core of the planet fuels their movement.

a. as the temperature increases, the kinetic energy of the gas molecules increases & the molecules move faster & further away from each other.

b. if you decrease the temperature of a fixed amount of gas at constant pressure, the combined gas law reduces to charles's law. in this case, volume will also decrease.

the law of original horizontality explains:   why rocks appear in layers. correct answer: b the law suggests that all rock layers are originally laid down (deposited) horizontally and can later be deformed.   the principle is used by geologists to make assumptions about the relative ages of sedimentary rocks.