AP Rhetorical Devices Examples: loose sentence(non-periodic) sentence, and a periodic sentence. LOOSE SENTENCE - begins with a main clause that is followed by phrases and/or clauses that modify the main clause. These phrases or clauses add information to the main or independent clause.
Other patterns such as the locations of earthquakes, mountain belts, and volcanoes, the shape of the sea floor, and the distribution of. rocks and fossils can. be seen. Geologists have developed the theory of. plate tectonics to explain these features. According to plate tectonics, the outer part of. the Earth is a layer of rock about 100 kilometers. thick. This shell is very thin compared to the size of. the Earth. This shell is divided into at least 25. pieces, which are called plates.
There are three kinds of plate tectonic boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform plate boundaries. This image shows the three main types of plate boundaries: divergent, convergent, and transform.Image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.agma formed from melting plates solidifies into granite, a light colored, low-density rock that makes up the continents. Thus at convergent boundaries, continental crust, made of granite, is created, and oceanic crust is destroyed. Two plates sliding past each other forms a transform plate boundary.