Many more earthquakes occur along the San Andreas Fault in California than in other parts of the United States. Scientists claim that these earthquakes are caused by activity along a transform plate boundary.

Which evidence would best support this claim?

Subduction causes new crust to form.
Subduction causes old crust to be destroyed.
Plates slip past each other at the boundary.
Plates collide with each other at the boundary.

The correct answer is C. Plates slip past each other at the boundary.

Explanation

A geological fault is a fracture in the Earth's crust, in which the rocky blocks that compose the crust move. Faults often occur in transform plate boundaries in which the two plates displace laterally with respect to the other plate, this means plates slip past each other. Evidence of this type of fault is in the United States, where the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco in California, United States, located on different plates of the San Andres fault move to different sides due to the transform plate boundary. In this way, the city of San Francisco moves to the East while Los Angeles moves to the West as the plates in which the cities are located slip past each other or move laterally. So, the correct answer is C. Plates slip past each other at the boundary.

e

explanation:

there is no change in the electric potential energy as it is in rest on both conditions.

so here is the information for current research:

-nrel's geothermal analysts, scientists, and engineers perform a full range of research from developing advanced methods of locating and accessing geothermal resources to exploring innovative technologies to extract and produce clean energy from the heat of the earth

and here is the information for the technology of geothermal energy:

-it's clean and sustainable

-resources of geothermal energy range from the shallow ground to hot water and hot rock found a few miles beneath the earth's surface, and down even deeper to the extremely high temperatures of molten rock called magma

-almost everywhere, the shallow ground or upper 10 feet of the earth's surface maintains a nearly constant temperature between 50° and 60°f (10° and 16°c)

-geothermal heat pumps can tap into this resource to heat and cool buildings

-a geothermal heat pump system consists of a heat pump, an air delivery system (ductwork), and a heat exchanger-a system of pipes buried in the shallow ground near the building

-in the winter, the heat pump removes heat from the heat exchanger and pumps it into the indoor air delivery system

-in the summer, the process is reversed, and the heat pump moves heat from the indoor air into the heat exchanger

-the heat removed from the indoor air during the summer can also be used to provide a free source of hot water