This required discussion question entails making a post with a new and interesting geologic information that you come across during your daily life this semester. for this assignment, you must include a 1- paragraph write-up (150 words minimum, which is about the length of this paragraph) with details about the new information, a link to the website and/or post a picture, and your thoughts about it relates to the class, using appropriate scientific terminology, complete sentences, capitalization and punctuation. the news story must be less than 1 year old, reported by a reliable news source, and cannot be about your personal experience ( note that you cannot make a post about the same article that someone has already posted, but you may make a post about the same news event from a different or more recent source. this initial post is due by midnight wednesday.

places of higher salinity. there are parts of the ocean where hardly any rain falls but warm dry winds cause lots of evaporation. this evaporation removes water – when water vapour rises into the atmosphere, it leaves the salt behind, so the salinity of the seawater increases. this causes the seawater to become denser.

the correct answers are:

a - pacific plate;

it is the biggest oceanic tectonic plate. surrounded on all sides by continental tectonic plates, it is submerging and gradually becoming smaller and smaller.

b - north american plate;

huge continental plate, occupying big portion of the northern hemisphere.

c -eurasian plate;

alongside the north american plate, it is one of the two dominant continental plates in the northern hemisphere.

d - indian plate;

a small continental plate, that has been part of gondwanaland initially, but after the break up of it, moved towards northeast and pushed into the eurasian plate that was once part of laurasia.