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A: STREAM DISCHARGE: Stream discharge or discharge is the volume of water moving down a stream or a riv...

Q: The five pertain to tools for studying any topic, while the five pertain to what geographers study.

A: The five theme pertain to tools for studying any topic, while the five subfields pertain to what geo...

Q: In an egalitarian society, status is     achieved     ascribed     the same for ev...

A: Egalitarian Society, the concept is derived from the French word e'gal, which means 'fair.' Egalitar...

Q: What is the central America land bridge

A:  EARLY PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AMERICA AND LAND BRIDGE:: Peoples have been living in central and south Ame...

Q: Based on the plotted predicted data for the two days, the vertical distance between the highest high...

A: According to the tidal levels was observed at the Fernandina Beac, the town of Fernandina Beach is l...

Q: The majority of earthquakes in the world occur under seamounts. far away from plate boundaries. ...

A: Earthquake is a phenomenon of shaking of the earth surface, it is generally associated with the volc...

Q: Earth's seasons are caused by:       the movement of the Sun from north to south of the eq...

A: The Planet Earth has seasons since the axis is tilted. The planet's axis is still oriented in the sa...

Q: Which process is a type of biophysical weathering? frost wedging oxidation salt wedging root...

A: BIOPHYSICAL WEATHERING: Biophysical weathering or Biological weathering caused by biological element...

Q: How does ice retain a record of past atmospheric gas composition?       in trapped air bubbl...

A: Ice sheets have a special property. They allow us to go back in time and take another time to sample...

Q: The ______ is the warmest time in Earth's 65+ million year climate history. Group of answer choices ...

A: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was an abrupt global warming period that took place at t...

Q: Which of the following characteristics would you expect at convergent plate margins that contain oce...

A: The convergent plate boundaries are characterized by the moving of plates towards each other. his le...

Q: What are the latitude and longitude of the point on the earth that is opposite Beijing, china (40n, ...

A: An antipode is from another point on the opposite side of the Earth; the position one will finish by...

Q: The United States is a ______________.     nation-state     multinational state     ...

A: A multinational state is a sovereign state made up of two or more nations or states. This compares w...

Q: In what ways does the surface of earth warm the troposphere above?

A: ATMOSPHERE: Our Earth is surrounded by a blanket of air. This layer of air is called the Earth's atm...

Q: Which are aspects of the geologic theory of uniformity? Select all that apply.     The Eart...

A: The term Uniformitarianism is often oversimplified when it is claimed in geological textbooks that t...

Q: How does a limited understanding of geography slow or prevent globalization?

A: Geography is a field that studies earth in terms of its physical and human aspects. Being a branch o...