As the caribbean plate moved away from africa, it carried small continental pieces with it, and those pieces became the islands of the a. greater antilles. b. caribbean. c. lesser antilles. d. guiana highlands.

As the Caribbean plate moved away from Africa, it carried small continental pieces with it, and those pieces became the islands of the Greater Antilles.

Option A

Explanation:

The Greater Antilles is an archipelago and it consists of present day countries like Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic. The origin of The Greater Antilles dates back to the Paleozoic age.

It happens when the tectonic plates moved due to force of the movement of the plates from continents like Africa, America in north and south. The Antilles was the term coined by the Europeans and since these islands are situated at the Caribbean Sea, the Caribbean Sea was also called as the “Sea of the Antilles” .

this headline suggests that midterm congressional   elections are at the corner and trump administration wants to activate his base by vowing to clamp down on immigrants and immigration as trump had said during his election campaign around two years ago. when a baby is born in usa, the baby becomes citizen of usa for 85 years and trump wants to end this rule of birthright citizenship to control illegal immigration and this what he said in an interview""we’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the united states for 85 years, with all of those benefits,” "

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)