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.
Joshua has in. Tectonic plates move because they are floating on top of the liquid mantle. The mantle itself moves due to convection currents: hot rock rises, gives off some heat, then falls. This creates vast swirls of moving liquid rock under the crust of the earth, which jostles the plates of crust on top.