What happens to the temperature of rising air? Of descending air? Why?

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

Q: Where are the areas of lowest elevation in Ohio?

A: Ohio's terrain is remarkably diverse and has been favorable to settlement and population growth in m...

Q: It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 bill...

A: In demographics, the world population is the total number of people actually living and is expected ...

Q: Is ozone the most abundant gas in the stratospheric ozone layer? explain.

A: OZONE (STRATOSPHERE LAYER):  Yes, ozone is the most abundant gas in ozone layer or stratospheric lay...

Q: While the earliest humans lived in East Africa, __________. While some historians think new technolo...

A: Early human migration is the first migration and spread of archaic and modern humans on the whole of...

Q: Which midlatitude location will typically experience higher summer temperatures: a coastal area, or ...

A: The middle-latitude are places that are located away from the tropics and poles and they generally l...

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: List five main natural and five main anthropogenic sources of air pollution. List five examples of p...

A:  Air Pollution The lower portion of the atmosphere is known as 'air' which contains primarily nitrog...

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: What is a great circle? A small circle? Provide examples of both.

A: GREAT CIRCLE: A Great circle is a section of sphere and the plane of the section passes through the ...

Q: One earthquake has a Richter scale reading of 5.4. Another is one-thousandth as strong. What is its ...

A: RICHTER SCALE: The Richter Scale was devised by prof. Richter, an eminent American seismologist. The...

Q: In Earth's climate system, the term longwave radiation refers to:     the incoming solar radia...

A: The sun emits insolation in the form of incoming short electromagnetic radiation during the daytime....

Q: Is the noon Sun ever directly overhead in Madison, Wisconsin (43° N)? If not, on which day of the ye...

A: Wisconsin is one of the US state and Madison is the capital of this Wisconsin and the countyseat of ...

Q: Use the “Living with Coastal Change and Coastal Basics” link) on MOODLE and lecture/book material to...

A: Sea-level Change during the Full Glacial Period During cold-climate periods, known as glacial epoch...

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A: The headlight of your new car turns yellow and foggy after five years due to Chemical Weathering.  C...