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Based on the presentation about the Hawaiian Islands and the behavior of the Pacific Plate respond to the following: The Pacific Plate is apparently moving faster today than it did in the past.  Does this support the principle of uniformitarianism mentioned in previous weeks?
- Yes, plates are always moving and changing due to erosion and or weathering. Plates move at certain speeds but there is still a possibility for them to change in speed that is most likely caused specifically by other occurrences. Overall, there is still a chance that just like the behavior of the Pacific Plate that the speed can either increase of decrease.

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How do tectonic plates move (use the concepts of mantle convection and the cooling and sinking of aging ocean plates)?
- Tectonic plates move from a couple different occurrences, one being due to the increase amount of heat. The heat from the core causes the plate to move in a convection cell that rises upward. Then the magma cools down and sinks downward.

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How does the theory of plate tectonics account for the features and processes (sea floor spreading, mid-ocean ridges, subduction zones, earthquakes and volcanoes, mountain ranges) that occur on or near the Earth’s surface?
- Due to sea floor spreading it caused and still causes the Earths lands to spread away from one another. And then subduction zones cause new land forms such as mountains and volcanoes. And mountain ranges can cause trenches that split land into two new land forms.

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Use geologic, paleontologic, and climatic evidence to support the claim that indicates Africa and South America were once part of a single continent.
- The plates and or the said land areas where all once gathered together as one. Then over time there has been proven facts that the lands were split into new plates. The sea floors created a change and split from the bottom of the floor creating rocks and water to cover the new gaps.

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What are you looking forward to this school year?
- I am looking forward to learning about new things in my classes and being able to get passed this year. I am also looking forward to going to prom for the first time this year.

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With the information you learned today, explain why it’s possible for there to be other planets similar to Earth in other distant galaxies.
- There still is a chance that there is similar planets to the Earth. This is because Earth was created for us humans once other planets could be created as so too.

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Describe the process that causes different stars to burn bright and colorful.
- The age and different wave lengths from blue and red stars that reflect off cause these different stars to be bright and colorful. The brighter they burn the more bright the stars are from all distances.

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What does an HR Diagram help a person do?
-HR Diagrams help people categorize stars temperature and brightness. When the HR Diagram shows us this it proved information about how long a star last and what color it lays under.

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How does the sun affect the other planets?
- The suns gravitational pulls affect the Earth and Moon tides. The energy from the suns heat waves affects the tide waves that travels through the universe and creates a new gravitational pull from the change of the tides.

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How do we know that Earth has changed and will continue to change over time?
- We know that Earth has changed due to Volcanoes and Earthquakes shifting the land forms. Rocks and water interact within each other to create new land forms. Overall the Earth is always changing over time through climate and land transitions.

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What do we know about how Earths features are formed?
- Earths features are formed through a rock cycle that requires that features of lava and magma. The lava and magma create new forms of lands such as igneous rocks that goes through out a cycle of crystallization to make a new mineral.

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Processes you described above may also have occurred sometime in the past?
- Yes, all of these movements and occurrences are the reason the world is the way it is. The land change from wind and water either make mountains of sand land forms.