three laws or principles that determine relative dates and examples of how to use those laws and principles in the field?

Q: Is the dark region of the black hole in the center of the galaxy M87 the same size of the event hori...

A: The dark region around a black hole is called its shadow.  The size of the event horizon is describe...

Q: How has the biosphere influenced climate change in the recent past?

A: The biosphere involves the interaction of terrestrial ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, etc, a...

Q: Why are continents so much older than the ocean basins?

A: Continents are the portions of land which are not covered with ocean water. About 260 million years ...

Q: the Streeter-Phelps equation was an early model of environmental systems, but it has been enhanced o...

A: The Streeter-Phelps equation is a mass balance equation describing the relationship between decreasi...

Q: Using Kepler first law where on elliptical route does object has the most kinetic

A: The first law of Kepler tells that the motion of each planet is along an ellipse, having the Sun loc...

Q: Based on what you have learned by experimenting with variables in the Glacial Dynamics Simulation, o...

A:   Decrease in precipitation causes glacial thinning which leads to decrease in glacial ice flow rate...

Q: how does the force of gravity cause tidal coupling between celestial objects

A: Tides are the periodic rising and falling of sea level that occur daily throughout the ocean. As the...

Q: Saline soils can be reclaimed by flushing these soils with clean irrigation water. To reclaim sodic ...

A: During the reclamation process of sodic and saline-sodic soils, the sodium cations (present in high ...

Q: what happen if we fail to protect rain forest and old growth forest

A:   The old growth forest and tropical rainforests are highly valuable from ecological point of view. ...

Q: Which of the following is most likely to cause primary succession? a glacier covering a valley and m...

A:   Succession is progressive changes in the composition of an ecological community with time. In prim...

Q: Determine whether the following argument is valid or invalid. ​ (Ignore differences in​ past, presen...

A: C.

Q: What is atmospheric drag and how does it affect objects in Earth orbits? For which orbits is drag a ...

A: Atmospheric drag, sometimes called air resistance, is the force placed on an object by its atmospher...

Q: Scientists plan to place detection devices outside Earth's atmosphere to detect radiations from a st...

A:   The atmosphere of earth blocks most of the light in the microwave band, so astronomers use satelli...

Q: A. What are tailings? B. Explain the potential environmental hazards associated with tailings piles ...

A: Any process or situation which can cause adverse effects to the environment is called environmental ...

Q: you are to collect a handful of the oldest biogenous sediment in the Atlantic Ocean. Where would you...

A:   The mid-oceanic ridges exist at divergent plate boundary. Here, new ocean floor is generated const...

Q: Yellowstone National Park, there are numerous ponds of boiling water. If Yellowstone is about 2200 m...

A: Boiling occurs when the escaping bubbles saturation vapor pressure becomes equal to the atmospheric ...

Q: Which exoplanet do you believe is most earth like?

A: Earth has the following characteristics an oval-shaped, elliptical orbit, the density of 5.5 g/cm3,...

Q: People drill water wells for their homes above the water table. As more homes are built, the number ...

A: The water cycle defines the processes that led to water circulation by evaporation and condensation ...

Q: If you were given the authority to describe how to spend limited resources for disasters, for which ...

A: Disaster Management Disaster management is the organization and management of the resources and resp...

Q: Granite silica rich. Examining a hand sample of granite, you identify a clear mineral with conchoida...

A: Granite is an igneous rock that contains coarse grains of mostly Quartz, Alkali Feldspar, and Plagio...

Q: Gravity is responsible for which of the following characteristics of a galaxy

A:   Every object present in space exerts a gravitational pull on every other object. The gravitational...

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A:   Lag deposit is a coarse-grained residue left after finer particles have been transported away, due...

Q: Explain why a rise in oil prices drives an increased interest in renewable energy sources.

A: The energy sources which are mainly associated with nature and infinite in amount, are known as rene...

Q: what is grading bedding?

A:   Graded bedding shows decreasing grain size from bottom to top. It indicates the sediment grains ar...

Q: 1. A paleontologist examining the bones of a prehistoric animal estimates they contain 5% as muchCar...

A: The principle of carbon 14 dating is that living organisms continually take up carbon from the envir...

Q: Radiometric dating is a technique used to determine the age of rocks. Geologists have used this tech...

A: Radiometric dating uses the decay of isotopes of the minerals present in the minerals to measure the...

Q: We have seen that virtually every line of sight ends in luminous matter. Why then, is the night sky ...

A: The universe has formed since the big bang. Since that time, our universe is continuously expanding....

Q: Using the histogram style, graph the relative masses, diameters, surface gravities, and densities of...

A: Jovian planets have no solid surfaces and are essentially large balls of gas consisting primarily of...

Q: True or false   A worst-case scenario predicted by some climate change models is some forests being ...

A: A wildfire starts with lightning activity naturally, but it is majorly human-induced. Any uncontroll...

Q: AU If the comet last came closes

A: Kepler's third law states that the planets' orbital periods' square is directly proportional to the ...

Q: 1) The arrangement of sediments deposited by turbidity currents is called: 2) The continental shelf ...

A:   1) The arrangement of sediments deposited by turbidity currents is called turbidite. 2) The contin...

Q: Which of these coastal structures results in increased wave height in a particular location?A. seawa...

A:   The breakwater is an offshore structure built to absorb the force caused by large, breaking ocean ...

Q: Identify the habitat in the picture. 2 Draw five food chains to represent the feeding relationships ...

A: Habitat A habitat is the home of an organism, which consists of all the necessary physical and bioti...

Q: As you approach a 10 solar mass black hole, you and your spacecraft are torn apart.  And you die.  W...

A: Black Hole Black hole is a place in space where gravitational force is so strong that no object even...

Q: Earth formed in a swirling disk of matter surrounding the sun. As particles in the disk collided and...

A:   Gravitational collapse and accretion of primordial gas and dust cloud gave birth to the Solar Syst...

Q: What happens to the size of sediment as you get farther away from the shoreline? Explain what is hap...

A:   The size of sediment keeps on decreasing farther away from the shoreline. The stream water current...

Q: 1) What human activities produce CO2, and how have they changed in the last 200 years? 2) Where does...

A:   1.  Burning of fossil fuels (coal and petroleum) produces CO2 in the atmosphere. Also, burning of ...

Q: Find how much more earth movement is caused by an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 than by an earthquake ...

A: A number measured by the seismograph or richer scale shows the physical size of an earthquake is kno...

Q: Enter the terms in the left column into the appropiate boxs. Terms Oceanic Lithosphere Continenta...

A: The earth's crust or lithosphere is divided into two, Continental lithosphere and Oceanic lithospher...