In the rural Southwestern United States, Howdy is a colloquial contraction of the formal greeting of How do you do?, and as such is considered a formal and acceptable greeting for residents of that region of the world. Howdy is also the official greeting of Texas A&M University. The word became recently popular in other areas of the world as it is the default greeting from the dashboard of WordPress, a very popular content management system.
The cribriform plate is the name given to a specific area of the human skull. It is part of the ethmoid bone, which is responsible for separating the brain from the nasal cavity.n injury in the region of the cribriform plate requires immediate medical attention. Damage to the cribriform plate may cause loss of smell. The grooved, narrow cribriform plate supports the olfactory bulb. Any type of head injury can cause damage to the cribriform plate.
Introduction. Crustal plates form the outer layer of the Earth. There are seven major plates and many smaller plates. These tectonic plates are formed from the Earth's crust and uppermost part of the mantle.Types of tectonic plates. There are two types of tectonic plates.aming the tectonic plates. Major plates. Scientists have named the largest plates for the continents and oceans they contain. The seven largest plates are the North American Plate, Eurasian Plate, African Plate, Antarctic Plate, South American Plate, Indo-Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate.