Dr. Moore and his team have learned from GPS data that two continents with an ocean between them have been moving toward each other. Some students living on the coast of one of these continents don’t understand what is happening and they are worried that the continents will run into each other. How could Dr. Moore explain to them what is happening? by Fraser

2024-10-28 21:39:36 UTC

Dr. Moore can explain to the students that the two tectonic plates are moving very slowly towards the student and that it will most likely take millions of years for the tectonic plates to meet each other.

2024-10-28 21:40:17 UTC

Dr. Moore could say that it would take millions of years to even reach the continent.

2024-10-28 21:40:26 UTC

Dr. Moore can explain to the students that the 2 continents colliding will happen over the course of millions of years, and he won’t even realize the continents moving toward eachother, so he should not worry.

2024-10-28 21:41:21 UTC

The plate boundary’s are moving toward each other which is called a convergent

2024-10-28 21:41:30 UTC

Dr.moris could tell the kids that this event would occur in the timeline of a million years. Because the plate tectonics move very slowly.

2024-10-28 21:41:44 UTC

Dr. Moore could tell the kids: “yes, it will crash but it will take thousands of years and when they crash it may would cause earthquakes but it won’t be like a car crash or something”.

2024-10-28 21:42:18 UTC

Dr.Moore can explain to them that the plates won’t harm them because it takes over a million years to reach each other.

-Sophia

2024-10-28 21:42:23 UTC

He could explain by saying that most tectonic plates take approximately 1 million years and that they also move very slowly, and they will be save by the time the plates reach them.Also they move in a convergent way created a mountain❤️

2024-10-28 21:42:32 UTC

Dr. Moore should explain to his students that the tectonic plates are moving very slowly and the 2 continents will probably meet with a divergent boundary where one plate tectonic goes under and the other goes over most likely going to cause the making of a mountain.

Alexander Moreno

2024-10-28 21:42:35 UTC

Dr. Moore could tell the students on how the two continents can collide into each other causing a divergent boundary but it will take many, many years.

Raymond Hall

2024-10-28 21:42:54 UTC

Dr Moore can explain it to them by telling them that tectonic plates move very slow so it would take a long time for them to run into each other

2024-10-28 21:42:57 UTC

Dr. Moore should tell them that continents are not floating. Continents are on the crust, over the mantle not floating on the ocean

2024-10-28 21:43:09 UTC

Dr. Moore can tell the students that the plates will collide in a few million years so they would have passed away before it even gets close to their home.

2024-10-28 21:43:24 UTC

Dr Moore can explain to the students that the tectonics plates are moving very slowly and will probably take millions of years to collide.

Iker

2024-10-28 21:43:37 UTC

If the continents are moving at a slow pace it will likely take a very long time like a few hundred thousand of even millions of year. Dr. Moore can tell the students that it will likely take a very long time till they will even be close.

2024-10-28 21:43:38 UTC

Dr. Moore may explain that they are experiencing a "continental collision" at a convergent plate boundary, and if you ask yourself what is a continental collision, it is a geological process where two continental tectonic plates collide with each other, resulting in the deformation and uplift of the Earth's crust. It may take like a thousand to a million years for them to collide.

2024-10-28 21:43:49 UTC

Dr. Moore can explain that what is happening to the two continents is that when two continents move towards each other is a convergent boundary which can form mountains but it will be a long time till the run into each other when I mean a long time I mean in a million years.

2024-10-28 21:44:21 UTC

Dr. Moore could say to calm them down that they shouldn’t be worried about the 2 continents colliding with each other because it could take millions of years for that and that the plate tectonics move very slowly therefore meaning that they could possibly not notice such event.

-Sephora Lopez Gomez

2024-10-28 21:44:46 UTC

Dr.Moore can explain to his students that the continent won’t run into each other because the tectonic plates mover very slowly and it will take a few millions of years to be able to collide.

2024-10-28 21:46:18 UTC

Dr.Moore can tell the students that the continent is moving together because the tectonic plates are moving together slowly it can take more then 1 million years and it’s called a convergent.

2024-10-28 21:46:22 UTC

Dr.Moore could explain to the students that it’s convergent and it will crash into the the other continent one day but it won’t happened in the next 1 million years or more.