Is it really that complicated? Really? Weâve all seen that ambiguous relationship status âItâs Complicatedâ on Facebook, but what does it really mean? Typically, the implication is that âItâs Mysteriousâ or âItâs Sordidâ or âWouldnât you like to know.â I call shenanigans.
Most of the United States is on the North American Plate. The tectonic plate that most of the United States rests on is the North American Plate. This plate also contains Greenland, Canada, Mexico, and parts of Iceland and Russia. Small parts of California and the entire Hawaiian islands rest on other tectonic plates.
The largest state in the US, in northwestern North America, with coasts on the Arctic and North Pacific oceans and on the Bering Sea, separated from the contiguous 48 US states by Canada; pop. 626,932; capital, Juneau; statehood: Jan. 3, 1959 (49). The territory was purchased from Russia in 1867.