Your family has decided to sponsor an international exchange student from sweden. your student, heidi, has never traveled outside of her country. she has contacted you on facebook and wants to know where georgia is located. which of these is the best response to her request? a) georgia is located in the eastern hemisphere on the north american continent in the united states of america. b) georgia is located in the northern hemisphere on the north american continent in the united states of america. c) georgia is located in the southern hemisphere on the north american continent in the united states of america. d) georgia is located in the northern hemisphere on the south american continent in the united states of america.

The correct answer is B.

Georgia is one of the 51 states that constitutes the United States of America, a federal nation located in the North American continent which, in turn, belongs to the Northern Hemisphere.

The Earth is divided in two hemispheres by the fictious line called Equator (as the image attached shows). The Northern halve of the sphere is the Northern Hemisphere while the Southern halve is the Southern Hempishere.

abu bakr, was a senior companion and—through his daughter aisha—a father-in-law of the islamic prophet muhammad. abu bakr became the first openly declared muslim outside muhammad's family. abu bakr served as a trusted advisor to muhammad.

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)