About how much more energy is released during a magnitude 6 earthquake than during a magnitude 5 earthquake?

Q: Describe about the suction or pull attributed to quicksand.

A: Quicksand is indeed a colloid composed of small grains of sand, silt, clay and water. When the sand ...

Q: The primary result of the greenhouse effect on Earth is to   a. retain heat, keeping the Earth...

A: GREENHOUSE GASES: A greenhouse is meant for plants in cold countries where total insolation during w...

Q: Briefly describe how water moves through the hydrologic cycle.

A: The hydrological cycle is a cyclic movement of water throughout the earth's hydrosphere and is an es...

Q: Describe the relationship between the “steepness” of a pressure gradient and the speed of the wind a...

A: Ignoring the effect of inertia due to the mass of the air, we can say that the wind speed is mainly ...

Q: What is the difference between the focus of an earthquake and the epicenter of an earthquake?

A: The epicenter is the point on the surface that is directly above a hypocentre or focus and is the pl...

Q: The melting of hot mantle into magma as a result of pressure changes but not temperature changes is ...

A: Decompression melts inside Earth as the rock body is kept at about the same temperature, but the pre...

Q: Briefly describe the six possible soil horizons: • 0 horizon • A horizon • E horizon • B horizon • C...

A: SOIL HORIZON: Soil horizon refers to the vertical variation ordered layering with depth, each layer ...

Q: How did the Great Rift Valley get its name?

A: The Great African Rift Valley is named after a 6,000 km deep, continuing geological trench, which ex...

Q: What is the difference between soil and regolith?

A: Depending on the composition of the dust settled on surface of Earth. It is classified into categori...

Q: Since about 0.9 million years ago, what has been the length of the main (dominant) cycle of growth a...

A: The 100.000-year term began 0.9 Myrs ago, which allowed ice sheets to flourish during weak precessio...

Q: How are midocean ridges and continental rift valleys related?

A: The mid-oceanic ridge is a seafloor formed by a mountain system of plate tectonics. Has a depth of 8...

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A: The yangtze flew into the eastern China Sea and, even before constructing the "Three Gorges Dam", it...

Q: What is the relative temperature of the ocean current flowing along the west coast of a continent in...

A: The mid-latitudes are known as tropic of cancer and Capricorn they are affected by the hour's daylig...

Q: say whether the following statement about latitudes is true or false.    latitudes are invisible ho...

A: Latitude is an invisible continuous line that extends from East to West across the planet. It starts...

Q: In a territory where the recurrence of hydrometeorological events has generated impacts onhouses and...

A: If disaster risk becomes a consideration in urban investment choices or not, the future regarding di...

Q: A large square slab of granite, 1 meter thick and 100 meters to a side, falls off an exfoliation dom...

A: Given Data : Square slab of thick 1 meter and side 100 meters,                       Density of gran...

Q: What kind of arrangements should be adapted by society to avoidthe tragedy of commons type natural d...

A:  NATURAL DISASTERS: Natural disasters are the hazards that occur due to some natural cause (meteorol...

Q: Describe the pattern of vertical air movement within a cyclone and within an anticyclone.

A: CYCLONE: Cyclones are stormy whirlwinds ; they come suddenly with great force and velocity the cente...

Q: what natural reource of latin america did the first european explorer most deire?

A: Gold is Latin America's natural resource, which Europe's first explorers desired the most.   In the ...

Q: 1) What evidence indicates a cooler climate in Europe and nearby regions during the Little Ice Age? ...

A: ANSWER (1): The little ice age is a period between 1300 and 1870, as a consequence European faced co...

Q: Which of the following is true about land vegetation 20,000 years ago compared to today?     ...

A: The period of 20,000 years is considered to be the period of the last glacial maximum in which the e...

Q: Rocks that are acidic rocks such as granite used for what purpose of work?

A: Introduction Any rock is an acidic rock if it is either siliceous or having a high content of silica...

Q: What are the conditions and weather effects of the “warm” phase and the “cool” phase of the Pacific ...

A: Introduction Pacific Decadal Oscillation is considered as a long-term ocean fluctuation in the Pacif...