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Q: What is the porosity of a perfectly sorted jar of marbles, with rhombohedral packing?

A: Porosity is defined as the measure of the room between the particles. Porosity is defined as the pro...

Q: An observer must look at what to see the setting moon?

A: The Moon does not have its light source. The reflected sunlight from its surface is observed from th...

Q: Does a lunar eclipse occur during the new moon, third quarter or full moon phase of the moon?

A: The lunar eclipse is a phenomenon that occurs only when the Earth's shadow blocks the Sun's light, t...

Q: If a typhoon is located at 15 N and 138 E is it within the Philippine Area of Responsibility

A: Philippine Area of Responsibility Philippine Area of Responsibility is the area bounded by coordinat...

Q: The oldest seafloor near Natal Brazil in South America and Douala, Cameroon in West Africa is 135 Ma...

A: A Mid-Atlantic spreading ridge is a mid-oceanic ridge present in the Atlantic Ocean. It is a diverge...

Q: What tectonic process has affected the Basin and Range province, from eastern California to Utah, du...

A: The Basin and Range province is situated in the western part of the North American continent. It ext...

Q: TYPES OF ROCKS Drag the definition in the green box to the vocabulary word it defines. igneous metam...

A: There are three types of rocks found on the earth. The definitions of the three types of rocks are g...

Q: Explain water table aquifers and artesian aquifers. Illustrate. Include water levels, wells, etc.

A: Aquifers are rock units that can store and transmit water at a sustainable rate, aquifers store grou...

Q: Terrestrial planet days are? Terrestrial planet years are? Compare the periods of rotation of the ...

A: In our solar system, there are four terrestrial planets, named- Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars and ...

Q: Government agencies carefully monitor water quality and its effect on wetlands.t of particular conce...

A: a) The variable is a concept or abstract idea that can be described in a measurable term. Here the w...

Q: What is the name for one complete 360 degree revolution of the Moon around Earth? How many days does...

A: The term which represents for the one complete 360-degree revolution of the Moon around the Earth is...

Q: How do patterns help scientists predict the weather?

A: Weather Forecasting Scientists collect satellite data of past and atmospheric conditions and use tho...

Q: Show where a meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite are most likely to be found in the diagram below. Use ...

A: Meteoroids are rocky cosmic objects that float around in the outer space. Meteors are the meteoroids...

Q: Some people have suggested that we could find room for an exponentially growing human population by ...

A: Continue exponential growth in the human population is a severe issue that humankind is about to fac...

Q: What is the difference between a sidereal month and a synodic month?

A: The term month comes from old English Mona meaning 'Moon.' It refers to the various moon phase used ...

Q: Which of these rocks in the picture has a non-foliated texture? (choose all that apply).  options: a...

A: The earth is composed of several types of rocks. Three types of rocks present on the earth are igneo...

Q: Groundwater can transport heat and dissolved compounds. Explain how groundwater might influence cont...

A: Contact metamorphism is produced due to high geothermal gradient at shallow depth.

Q: Make a simple flowchart showing the steps in the process of sea-floor spreading.

A: The molten material found below the earth surface is termed as magma. The mobile plate is the plate ...

Q: How does grain size tell geologist if the rock was subjected to high or low metamophism temperature ...

A: Metamorphism is obtained from the Greek words, 'meta' meaning change, and 'morph' meaning form. It m...

Q: How many rotations is in one Mercury year?

A: Mercury is the closest and the smallest planet to the Sun in the solar system.