As you hike up a mountain, you realize that the plants and animals present at the base are not the same as those at the top. this observation is basis of?

This observation in the basis of change in habitat or ecosystem.

Explanation:

At the base of a mountain, we'll most probably find more plants and animals. There will even be trees at the base of mountain. As we move up, there will be a climate change and a change in habitat and ecosystem. There will no trees, fewer number of plants and animals as we go on top of the mountain. All these changes depict that the climate changes the habitat of particular organisms hence, the ecosystem changes.

answer:

convection currents in the magma drive plate tectonics. heat generated from the radioactive decay of elements deep in the interior of the earth creates magma (molten rock) in the aesthenosphere. the aesthenosphere (70 ~ 250 km) is part of the mantle, the middle sphere of the earth that extends to 2900 km.

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