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Q: What is meant by the “hole” in the ozone layer, and what role have chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) played...

A: Hole in the ozone layer: A hole in the ozone layer is not a hole that is thinning the ozone layer at...

Q: Natural Gas Resources in Ireland: Their Mining History, Location of Major Deposits, Consumption Stat...

A: The Mining History of Natural Gas in Ireland The Corrib Gas Field was discovered in 1996 but was no...

Q: Why is the land surface rising in the Hudson Bay region of Canada?     accelerated heat flow...

A: Hudson bay is a large slat body of water in northeastern Canada has an area of 1,230,000 km2. It is ...

Q: Why are physical geographers interested in globalization of the economy?

A: GLOBALIZATION: Although globalization is a term usually restricted to economics and the social scien...

Q: What leads to ice ablation?     calving   incoming solar radiation   uptake of l...

A: The ablation area refers to the low altitude region where the glacier or ice sheet loss takes place ...

Q: What is meant by the term precipitation variability?

A: PRECIPITATION: Microscopic droplets join together and grow in size when they become heavy and clouds...

Q: Select the corresponding name for each layer. B C

A: Earth's Interior Layers There are two ways in which the structure of Earth can be defined: by mecha...

Q: Convert the following latitude and longitude coordinates presented in decimal form (as might be show...

A: Decimal degrees (DD) represent the geographic coordinates of latitude and longitude as a decimal fra...

Q: Discuss the relationships between parks/reserves and biodiversity, the local environment and the loc...

A: National parks are created for conservation purposes by the national government often act as a reser...

Q: How do large volcanic eruptions influence Earth's climate? Group of answer choices none of these a...

A: Volcanic eruptions of high intensity can have an effect on the global environment, reduce the amount...

Q: What is Lithosphere?

A: LITHOSPHERE: The Lithosphere is the upper most or outer most layer of the earth. It is made up of d...

Q: Describe how atmospheric pressure changes with increasing altitude

A: The air exerts a pressure that is called atmospheric pressure which is calculated in 1031.25 Mb or m...

Q: The primary result of the greenhouse effect on Earth is to   a. retain heat, keeping the Earth...

A: GREENHOUSE GASES: A greenhouse is meant for plants in cold countries where total insolation during w...

Q: Briefly describe the six possible soil horizons: • 0 horizon • A horizon • E horizon • B horizon • C...

A: SOIL HORIZON: Soil horizon refers to the vertical variation ordered layering with depth, each layer ...

Q: How did soil quality affect the lives of the Coahuiltecan?

A: Coahuilecan is the native American tribe that lived in Rio Grande valley that is in southern Texas a...

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: Rocks that are acidic rocks such as granite used for what purpose of work?

A: Introduction Any rock is an acidic rock if it is either siliceous or having a high content of silica...

Q: African and Arabian Plate boundary: a. continental- Continental convergent b. Oceanic- Oceanic conve...

A: Africa's modern tectonic history coincides with the collapse of Gondwana ~ 200 Mya. It was then that...

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: Question 1 Igneous rocks form from: crystallization - cooling of magma compaction - cementation of s...

A: ROCKS: The most significant part of the outer crust of the earth is 'Lithosphere'. The literal meani...

Q: Researchers that study climate change exclusively study current climate changes (20th century for...

A: Climate researchers use both possible direct and indirect measurements to analyze the entire history...

Q: 1. Why is the Earth considered to be a ‘dynamic’ planet?   2. What makes the lithospheric plates mov...

A: The Dynamic Planet Earth Change is the only constant in the history of our world, perhaps. The natu...

Q: Explain how colonization had Changed African continent. Had it fragmented or unified the continent? ...

A: The establishment of colonial rule over the interior of Africa (1880-1900) reinforced the developmen...

Q: 3. If I was to remove invasive species, add more habitat, and fix the stream bank of trotter creek (...

A: An invasive species also referred to as introduced species, foreign species, or exotic species, that...

Q: A country with several ethnic groups is a      nation-state     stateless nation    ...

A: ETHNIC GROUPS: Ethnic Groups are those community or population which are made up of people of same g...

Q: What are the advantages of controlling environmental contamination by separately regulating the elem...

A: Over the period of the 20th century, greater awareness of environmental and human health effects ass...

Q: 4. Regions that receive less than 25 centimeters of rain annually are called a. tundras. b. savannas...

A: Deserts are very low precipitation zones. Sometimes people use "hot," "dry," "empty" adjectives to c...

Q: A well-developed soil will have all layers O, A, E, B & C on the top of the parent material, fro...

A: SOIL: The word Soil comes from the Latin word Solum meaning soil i.e. ground of base. The famous Rus...