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Q: Which do you think poses the highest disaster risk among the volcano-induced hazards? Why do you say...

A: Volcanoes are a geological phenomenon where hot magma is erupted, from the interior of the Earth, in...

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: What causes some hurricanes to have higher wind speeds than others?

A: Hurricane is a tropical cyclone that forms over tropical or sub-tropical regions.

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: Specify the marine environmental problems associated with non-petroleum chemical pollution.

A: Chemical pollution is caused by harmful chemicals like pesticides, oil, plastics, detergents, and ma...

Q: Is a Cascade Range volcano likely to have a major eruption during your lifetime?

A: Cascade range volcanoes are a collection of 18 volcanoes. It is a part of the pacific ring of Fire e...

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: Provide reasons for the Aral Sea’s disappearance, and outline the economic and environmental consequ...

A: The Aral Sea was the fourth-largest sea in the world before the 1960s, situated between Kazakhstan i...

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: What is hazard?

A: In the field of geology hazards can be classified as weather induced or geological hazards.  

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 makes air stable or unstable, and how does this influence cloud formation and precipitation?

A: Gravity pulls the air towards the surface, and the decreasing pressure upwards allows the air to ris...

Q: What is the classification of hazard?

A: Hazard can be defined as any potential source of damage. In geology these are the events caused by g...

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: What are the effective ways we can do to preserve and conserve natural resources?1. water resources ...

A: Water is one of the most vital resources for our sustainable living. And the supply of freshwater is...

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: Thinking Critically What two processes contribute to longshore drift? What powers longshore drift? W...

A: Longshore drift or littoral drift is the movement of sediment material along a coast parallel to the...

Q: Discuss the Structure of the Ecosystem and give examples for each structure

A: An ecosystem is defined as the community of living organisms interacting and living in association w...

Q: How does the interrelatedness of the species help one value the environment?

A: The environment comprises physical factors such as soil, temperature, precipitation, and many more a...

Q: Enumerate the cause and effects of global warming and climate change. (Note: Must provide 3 causes....

A: Global warming is a warming event that has impacted worldwide, causing climatic changes globally. Th...

Q: - The Canadian Space Agency 1- In two points, provide exaplanntaion of how Earth Scientists can part...

A: Canada's national space agency, which was established in 1990 by the Canadian Space Agency Act, is k...

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: Saturation deficit

A: Saturation deficit is an important parameter for greenhouse regulation.

Q: What are minerals ? How do we identify them based on their physical properties ? and How do we class...

A: Any naturally occurring, inorganic solid substances with a well-ordered crystal structure, and homog...

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: Discussion: How to prevent the disturbance on water resources? Atmosphere 3. If we add lot of nutrie...

A: Water Resources 1. If we cut lot of Trees Deforestation on large scale will lead an increase in the ...

Q: parcel of moist air at 50°F, initially at 152 m mean sea level is forced to pass over a mountain rid...

A: Here, the air parcel ascends from an initial position with dry adiabatic lapse rate. At a certain le...

Q: What are the most causes of global climate changes an how has human activities contributed to these ...

A: The greenhouse gases act as an umbrella above the earth and soak up infrared radiation. Some of this...

Q: Q1 a) Explain the term isostasy and identify the theory which belongs to this given picture and just...

A: a) The term isostasy refers to the state of hydrostatic balance of the crustal segments of varying t...

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: Why persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have long half-life?

A: The persistent organic pollutant is chemical compounds that are toxic, persistent in all types of en...

Q: Six of the fossils indicated by the number 1 and one of the fossils indicated by the number 2 were f...

A: The fossil shown in figure one is ammonoid with ammonitic suture whose age ranges from Jurassic to C...

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: How does the Richter magnitude remains in widespread usage?

A: Earthquakes are a physical phenomenon that results in a violent shaking of the Earth. Earthquakes ar...

Q: Will a tall building be affected more by high- or low frequency seismic waves? Why?

A: Seismic waves are the waves that produced by an earthquake and travels through the earth's layers.

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: What was the oxygen revolution? What caused it?

A: Ever since the formation of the Earth, it has experienced many changes in its system. One of the mos...

Q: as an individual or a student, write suggestions on how to minimize the pollution

A: Pollution is an unwanted switching in physical and chemical or biological features of air, water and...

Q: If you have a piece of land but no idea what is its measurement and have no measuring tape with you,...

A: In geological fieldwork, there are many instances where the measurement of geological features is ne...

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: What are your some of the ways on how people can adapt to natural disasters (such as flooding, typho...

A: Natural Disasters are natural phenomena that occur on earth and create destruction in the form of lo...

Q: What happens with the old oceanic crust? Explain.

A: Oceanic crust is of the mafic composition formed by mafic magma upwelled at the mid-oceanic ridge wh...

Q: Describe types of Earthquake and also describe man made and natural Earthquake in detail.

A: Earthquake is described as the sudden movement of the Earth's surface due to tectonic plate movement...

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.