Application 9.2 describes how several southwestern states resolved their dispute over water rights to the Colorado River. The Colorado River eventually flows out of the United States and into Mexico, where it soon disappears, its waters exhausted. Explain why it is easier to keep the Colorado's waters flowing as it passes from state to state than it is to keep the Colorado's waters flowing as it passes from country to country.

Explanation:

It is easier to keep the Colorado's waters flowing as it passes from state to state than it is to keep the Colorado's waters flowing as it passes from country to country  because of certain reasons such as :

Therefore it is easier to keep the Colorado's waters flowing as it passes from state to state. than from country to country

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.