Why is there a chain of earthquake epicenters cutting across Guatemala and continuing eastward south of Cuba? What type of plate boundary might this indicate?

Q: In a territory where the recurrence of hydrometeorological events has generated impacts onhouses and...

A: If disaster risk becomes a consideration in urban investment choices or not, the future regarding di...

Q: In an egalitarian society, status is     achieved     ascribed     the same for ev...

A: Egalitarian Society, the concept is derived from the French word e'gal, which means 'fair.' Egalitar...

Q: Why is the Pleistocene Epoch so important to physical geography, whereas other ice ages are not?

A: PLEISTOCENE EPOCH: Pleistocene Epoch was earlier and major of the two epochs that constitute the Qua...

Q: What is the importance of jointing and bedding planes to the underground structure of caverns?

A: CAVERNS: The mineral calcite is dissolved out of the rock by the acidic water and carried down into ...

Q: What are non-native species? Why can they be so damaging to ecosystems?

A: The non-native species that occupy the land are called invasive species they may naturally or delibe...

Q: What general temperature characteristic distinguishes tundra climate from ice cap climate?

A: Polar climates are distinguished into two categories; the tundra climate (ET) and the ice cap climat...

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: What is meant by the term volcanism?

A: Volcanism means the process of eruption of magma that is molten rocks from the volcano on the surfac...

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: How do physical features affect the growth of cities?

A: The cities are know to have appeared in the 6000 to 5000 BC, these were small and were found along t...

Q: What is the biggest threat to the savanna?

A: SAVANNA: The word savanna is used for different purposes such as 'savanna region,' 'savanna climate'...

Q: How did the Great Rift Valley get its name?

A: The Great African Rift Valley is named after a 6,000 km deep, continuing geological trench, which ex...

Q: Directions: Select the word or words with the closest meaning to the underlined word. 12. The Caucas...

A: In 1958, the Soviet Geographical Society officially proposed that the border between Europe and Asia...

Q: Give any three suitable example of the intervening Opportunity that you ever obsessed around you

A: An intermediate opportunity leads a person migrating to pause at a point between both the place he/s...

Q: What is the difference between soil and regolith?

A: Depending on the composition of the dust settled on surface of Earth. It is classified into categori...

Q: Why doesn’t subduction take place in a continental plate collision zone?

A: Subduction is the process of a collision between the two tectonic plates which are of the heavier an...

Q: Describe and explain the temperature and moisture characteristics of a maritime polar (mp) air mass

A: When the air gets the temperature and characteristics of the region which is associated with the hum...

Q: Differentiate between trade winds and antitrade winds.

A: Introduction Trade winds and Anti-Trade winds are the categories of planetary winds that covers a hu...

Q: Q2. The graphs below show water levels over the course of a lunar mohth. exposed to the most air if ...

A: During the seasonal period of the seas, the sea level increases or the floods rise before it hits it...

Q: Describe the spawning cycle of grunion, indicating the relationship among tidal phenomena, where gru...

A: SPAWNING CYCLE OF GRUNION: Grunion is that the specie of marine fish of the genus Leuresthes tenuis....

Q: Explain the general differences in silica content and style of volcanic eruption (i.e., quiet lava f...

A: Lava flows produce considerable damage to property. The rapidity of a lava flow and its distance cov...

Q: Which of the following could be reasons why population sizes may reach and maintain plateaus? Select...

A: Eventually, all population's geometrical or exponential growth (fig1) is limited by food production,...