why there are hurricans, ocean hurricans are in America?
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Because the US doesn't have monsoons.  Apparently various severe tropical storms get special names depending on the ocean of origin.  Hurricanes originate from the Atlantic.  America (US, Carribean, and Mexico especially) get hurricanes in particular because God is angry with them... Just kidding!  Particular areas get hit because of the flow of the Gulf Stream moving from Africa to the Carribean is apparently capable of building up a great deal of force!  Think warm, moist wind building up steam with no trees or other geographical feature getting in the way, all the while collecting moisture... Then slamming that into the islands and mainland...  Nasty stuff that...
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In the South Atlantic there is a vast area for waves to develop, and much energy, as well as thousands of miles of  fetch, unbroken by land, for them to build. The southern oceans are known for their tremendous waves. The latitudes of the 50's and 60's south  are known for their wild waters(the roaring 50's)
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Some people say that since there is a Central, South, and North America, people in the US aren't the only Americans. It is annoying because we have been called Americans forever, and I don't know why this word is popping up now.
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They all touch the Atlantic Ocean?
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Are you referring to tectonic plates?  Geographically, North America is one continent, but geologically there are smaller plates that has been pressed against the main North American plate.  The science is known as plate tectonics.  For instance, the Juan de Fuca plate is one of these.  The Pacific oceanic plate is also moving against the North American plate, and I would guess that the San Andreas Fault marks the boundary between the North American Plate and a mini-plate (technically known as a micro-craton) that has been accreted between the Pacific Plate and North America.\n\nSorry if this is not what you meant.  I'm trying not to be too technical.\n\nGeographically the next continent west of the USA is Asia.
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The esoterics would argue that America is simply an idea carried in the hearts and minds of the loud and slightly wobbly people everywhere. \n\nAfter careful study I have come to the conclusion that geographically  it's somewhere below Canada. I'll get back to you...........can you remember where you were when you lost it?
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It is because of the sea currents of the Pacific.\nThey are cold and generate dryness conditions.\nThe same effect happens in the South Hemisphere.\nThis effect, disappears the more you go east after the mountains.\nIt is very dry on the coast until the 42-45° parallel, and then, going norther in the case of North America or souther in the case of South America, becomes a lot more humid.\nThat's the difference between California and the British Columbia for example.\nAnd between north Chile and south Chile.
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The East Coast is relatively warmer than the West Coast.\nThus being more conducive to crustacean / mollusck habitation at sea
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I'm happy to be American. But you are American too. The Caribbean is part of America. Chicago's my home, so maybe I can't say I'm a proud Californian, but I'm not in denial about where I'm from either. Happy to be american, I'll leave it at that.
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Where I live now would have been part of a fore arc-subduction complex. At that time the western coast of the area that is now the United States was near the California-Arizona border, and the California-Nevada border. The Sierra Nevada was just starting to rise. A number of islands existed off the west coast that later became part of the North American plate. \n\nThe entire area was just above the equator. The environment was a desert biome. Worldwide, temperatures were warmer than they are today. There were no icecaps on the planet.  The plants that lived in what is now Southern California were dry-adapted (xeromorphic) to live in the hot arid to semi-arid environment.  Some conifers, trees with veined lobed leaves (Ginkophytes), rarely ferns, cycadophytes which look like a palm tree were all likely found growing in microclimates near the coast where there was more rainfall. The most impressive forms of animal life would have been several species of suaropods, which fed on conifers, ginkos and cyads. These were the dinosaurs with long necks and tails. Stegosaurus might have been feeding in the vegetation, and a bipedal carnivore called Ornitholestes may have preyed on them. \n\nSea life would have been abundant, and marine crocodiles may have been common. Large ichthyosaurs (marine reptiles) that reached 2-4 meters made swimming hazardous. Plesiosaurs were also likely to be present in coastal waters and may have preyed on the crocs. Sharks were abundant.  Fish might have been of a group known as bony fish, of which the lungfish and coelacanth are modern survivors. In the air Rhamphorhynchus, a flying reptile probably caught fish like pelicans do today. In shallow sea waters there were some strange looking bivalves known as Diceratids that often built shoals like modern day oysters do. Sea urchins, starfish, and crinoids lived in the shallow and shelf waters. Dragonflies and damselflies were present; also ants, butterflies, and grasshoppers lived in the vegetated areas. \n\n\nTo see a paleogeographic map go here and scroll down to the 150 Ma plate:\nhttp://jan.ucc.nau.edu/rcb7/jurpaleo.html\nHere is another map:\nhttp://jan.ucc.nau.edu/rcb7/150NAt.jpg\nBiome map for Late Jurassic:\nhttp://pgap.uchicago.edu/data-models.html\nPaper describing climate of Late Jurassic:\nhttp://www.geo.arizona.edu/~rees/2004-1.pdf
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This is only a theory, no amount of evidence has proven it fact. The only way scientists verify it is through fossil records which show the existence of marine creatures and plants existing at one point in the middle of the dry land continents that we see today. Also, scientists believe that the continents were once one huge land mass that came into existence similar to the way Hawaii did (aka. with a lot of volcanic activity).
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The Artic Ocean touches Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Russia, and Norway, SO ... the continents would be:\n\nGreenland = North America\nCanada = North America\nAlaska = Noth America\nRussia = Asia / Europe\nNorway = Europe
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atlantic, pacific, and indian oceans
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strongest earthquakes occur in the pacific, not the Atlantic.  It has to do with tectonics.  You need to think of continents as floating masses of rock on a lava ocean.  Millions of years ago, all of these islands were all stuck together in a supercontinent called Pangea centered in what is now northeast Africa.  Due to the rotation of the earth, solar heat and pressure, this continent cracked and is spreading out from its center.  Antarctica is moving South.  The Americas are moving west.  Asia and Australia are moving east.  Europe will eventually move north and Africa south as well.  That is until they reform another supercontinent millions of years from now.\n\nNow for the answer why.  because Asia and Australia are moving East, and the Americas are moving west, this causes the seafloor to "crunch" together causing volcanos, tectonic slips and slides.  slips and slides cause the greatest of earthquakes.  This is why you get quakes most often in Japan, California, Alaska and Chile.  The circle formed by these closing continents is called "the ring of fire"\n\nThat is not to say you will not earthquakes elsewhere, but they are usually not as strong or frequent.\n\nPS:  The supercontinent before Pangea was called Rhondinia.  the process is cyclical.
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You mean there is more to the world than the US and Canada?  I never would have guessed it.\n\nBy the way, the Western Hemisphere is almost entirely American... North, Central and South.  Buy a map and learn something.
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Hurricanes form in regions known as "basins". If you look at where these are you'll understand why hurricanes rarely hit South America. (see link)
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Probably because it lies under the Scotia Sea, which sits between Tierra Del Fuego and the Antarctic. The sea was named after a shipped that explored there, The Scotia.