What is the main effect of weathering on the landscape? of mass wasting?

Q: 1. Natural Resources - How many and what types of natural resources are available?

A: RESOURCES: The term 'resource' in Economic Geography does not necessarily mean a valuable thing or a...

Q: Where is the tropical zone found? Your answer Where is the temperate zone found?

A: TOPICAL ZONE: The tropical zones or regions are found on the earth, that lies between 2312° to 6612°...

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: Describe the important parallels of latitudes with the help of a labelled diagram.

A: Introduction Latitudes are the angular measurement in degrees on the earth surface from 0o or the Ce...

Q: The Mississippi River in the U.S has about 56% of the drainage area of The Amazon River Basin in Sou...

A: STREAM DISCHARGE: Stream discharge or discharge is the volume of water moving down a stream or a riv...

Q: What is the relative temperature of the ocean current flowing along the west coast of a continent in...

A: The mid-latitudes are known as tropic of cancer and Capricorn they are affected by the hour's daylig...

Q: Explain the following chart in terms of Demographic Transition? Is it a viable model that can be app...

A: Demographic Transition Whether we believe that we are heading toward a global catastrophe and an end...

Q: What are soil separates?

A: SOIL: The word soil has been derived from Latin word 'Solum' which means "floor". Soil is the thin s...

Q: Why are subtropical desert (BWh) climates generally hotter in summer than tropical humid (A) climate...

A: "Hot desert climates" (BWh) in the lower and middle latitudes, mostly from 20° to 33° north and sout...

Q: If we construct a globe at a scale of 1:1,000,000, what will be its diameter? (You may give your ans...

A: Given that a globe at a scale of 1:1,000,000, that means 1 inch on the map is equivalent to1,000,000...

Q: Describe and explain the pattern of wind flow in the Northern Hemisphere around: • a surface high • ...

A: Winds Around Anticyclones pass around the middle of the northeasterly area Winds run in the clockwis...

Q: When did forests of spruce and larch develop around the Arctic Ocean?

A: The forests of Larch and Spruce i.e. the taiga, as it stands, In geological time scale,  is a relati...

Q: Describe both the vertical distribution of water vapor in the atmosphere and its horizontal (geograp...

A: Atmosphere is a multilayered gaseous envelope surrounding the earth. There are three major constitue...

Q: Explain the differences between an equivalent (equal area) map projection and a conformal map projec...

A: All map projections reveal some sort of distortion in areas far from the projection centre. Based on...

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: Define sedimentary rocks. Name and explain any three types of sedimentary rocks?

A: Introduction There are three distinct types of rocks found in nature, viz. Igneous rocks, Sedimentar...

Q: Explain the role of adiabatic temperature changes, as well as changes in both the relative humidity ...

A: Rainfall in a particular place rely on temperature and turbulence of that place. Rain is one among t...

Q: The tilt of Earth's axis is:       slowly decreasing.     slowly increasing.   ...

A: Earth is tilted at about 23.4 degrees, and this is responsible for the seasonality on the planet. Th...

Q: Climate change 55 MYA is relevant to studies of modern and future climate because

A: One of the best ways to explore how human-induced global warming can impact the World in the future ...

Q: 2. During a La Niña the equatorial wind stress averaged across the Pacific is anomalously and the su...

A: LA NINA: After an El-Nino, weather conditions return to normal. However, sometimes trade winds becom...

Q: Why is it impossible for a map of the world to portray Earth as accurately as can be done with a glo...

A: The representation of Earth in the form of drawing in two dimensional pattern is a map. Only selecte...

Q: Which of the following is true about land vegetation 20,000 years ago compared to today?     ...

A: The period of 20,000 years is considered to be the period of the last glacial maximum in which the e...

Q: Consider differential heating of the land and sea. For the same amount of solar radiation received o...

A: When consideration the differential heating and cooling aspect of the land and the ocean waters. The...

Q: How does the mantle plume model explain the formation of the hawaiian Islands?

A: The mantel plume is a mechanism of convection where the hard molten rocks within the earth's mantel....

Q: say whether the following statement about latitudes is true or false.    latitudes are invisible ho...

A: Latitude is an invisible continuous line that extends from East to West across the planet. It starts...