Briefly define the following terms: zone of aeration, zone of saturation, groundwater.

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

Q: Most weather satellite images are “time-stamped” using UTC or “Zulu” time (UTC expressed using 24-ho...

A: UTC OR ZULU TIME: UTC is a 24 hour clock system that is used by entire world. Local time is the cloc...

Q: Choose the word that best fits the blank. The words in parentheses represent the choices for each bl...

A: The mantel plume is a mechanism of convection that is located in the interior of the earth in the me...

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: 4. Regions that receive less than 25 centimeters of rain annually are called a. tundras. b. savannas...

A: Deserts are very low precipitation zones. Sometimes people use "hot," "dry," "empty" adjectives to c...

Q: How much more nitrogen is in the atmosphere than oxygen?

A: The air is late of gases and its retained by the gravity of the planet, earth is surrounded by vario...

Q: wegner had four pieces of evidence that convinced him of pangeas existence. describe these 4 reasons

A: The continental drift theory is also called the plate tectonic theory which shows the drifting of th...

Q: A country with several ethnic groups is a      nation-state     stateless nation    ...

A: ETHNIC GROUPS: Ethnic Groups are those community or population which are made up of people of same g...

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A: CORIOLIS FORCE: The Coriolis force acts of moving winds and changes its direction. In the southern h...

Q: what is the biggest continent in the world

A: AISA: Being an extremely large landmass, Asia has 90 parallels of latitude running across it. As a r...

Q: Discuss Wide scope of Geography around other domains

A: Geography has been one of the earth's ancient disciplines, its origins date from the early Greek sch...

Q: Assume that a parcel of unsaturated air is at a temperature of 20°C at sea level before it rises up ...

A: The temperature depends on altitude. As we go higher in the altitude the temperature will decreases.

Q: Describe the Coriolis effect and its cause.

A: The Coriolis force is a fictitious force that acts on the object that is set in direction of motion....