about 5 centimeters per year
The equator crosses the following countries.You can't get much closer than that.In South America: Ecuador (including the Galapagos Islands), Colombia, BrazilIn Africa: Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, SomaliaIn Asia: IndonesiaIn the Pacific: Gilbert Islands
they move past each other pretty much freely
Well, for atoms to stop moving, the temperature would have to be at 0 K, aka absolute zero. However, that's theoretically impossible. Anyway, solid molecules barely move, "vibrating" against each other in a tightly packed space. For liquid molecules, they can slide past each other and move about, but there's not much space between the particles. As for gas, the particles are much faster than particles of solid or liquid, and the particles move about freely, bumping into each other.
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All of it. The islands were created by volcanoes.
97% of the Galapagos Islands are protected Galapagos National Park Areas.
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The Galapagos Islands. EDIT: No need to be rude...
The blue footed booby is common throughout much of Central and South America, not just the Galapagos.
Those Islands would be the Galapagos Islands.
The Galapagos Islands.
The Galapagos Islands.
Trips to the Galapagos Islands start at around $900 for a 4 Day/ 3 Night tour. There are also 5D/4N and 8D/7N tours available
The Galapagos Islands. About 600 miles west of Ecuador.
His jobs were to keep the captain company and to observe as much as he could about the different plants and animals on the Galapagos Islands.
Somewhere in the Galapagos islands, in the western shore of Latin America.. pretty much west of Peru...
The most famous was Charles Darwin, a naturalist employed aboard the HMS Beagle. It was here that Darwin formulated much of his theories about evolution.