explain in your own words how someone applies the skill of inferencing when reading social studies text

A lot of history is untold, or is half true and half real (there’s propaganda and yellow journalism). Primary sources are more accurate but if the author is not objective and is biased, it will make his or her words less trustable. Also, secondary sources, which are sources from people who analyze the primary sources, are based on the interpretation of the author and his way of thinking/opinion. This makes the documentaries that actually survived the passing of time to modern day not as reliable just looking at one source. When looking at multiple sources, they will have different points of view and it is based on our own inferences to figure out what is the closest and accurate answer based on evidence from different sources.

Explanation:

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)