The plate movement also causes earthquakes.

板块运动同样导致地震。

Today, plate movements are thought to shift Earth's continents about 2 centimeters (or 0. 8 inch) per year.

如今，板块运动被认为每年使地球大陆移动约 2 厘米（或 0.8 英寸）。

For example, which are a result of tectonic plate movement.

例如，这是构造板块运动的结果。

Instead, they're other volcano types, like stratovolcanoes for example, which are a result of tectonic plate movement.

相反的，是其他种类的火山，例如，地层火山，是地球板块运动造成的。

These and other plate movements also changed the circulation of air currents, and together these forces caused the climate to cool.

这些和其他板块运动也改变了气流的循环，这些力量共同导致气候变冷。

The result is that for tens of millions of years, the plume has constantly been building volcanoes that then get dragged to the Northwest by the Pacific plates movement.

结果就是，几千万年来，火山羽流一直在不断地形成火山，然后被太平洋板块的运动拖到西北部。

Using these tools, scientists have pieced together a relatively reliable history of plate movements, and their research revealed a pattern spanning hundreds of millions of years.

使用这些工具， 科学家们拼凑了一段相对可靠的板块运动历史，他们的研究揭示了一种跨越数亿年的模式。

This helped him to understand how landscapes changed as a result of geological processes and led to Darwin suggesting that coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean developed as a result of tectonic plate movement.

这帮助他理解了地质过程是如何导致景观变化的，并促使达尔文提出太平洋珊瑚礁的形成是板块构造运动的结果。

The plate movement also causes earthquakes, because many of these earthquakes occur in the ocean, the " Ring of Fire" is also known for tsunamis produced when the ocean floor is either rise or fall.

板块运动也会引起地震，因为许多地震发生在海洋中，当海底上升或下降时，“火山带”也会引起海啸。