Explain what is meant by the cation exchange capacity (CEC) of a soil.

Q: Lithosphere How are humans using these features (tourism, nature reserve, sacred lands, extracting r...

A: Tourism is defined as the leisure activity that is taken by people residing outside their usual envi...

Q: What kind of arrangements should be adapted by society to avoidthe tragedy of commons type natural d...

A:  NATURAL DISASTERS: Natural disasters are the hazards that occur due to some natural cause (meteorol...

Q: Distinguish between Earth’s rotation and its revolution.

A: EARTH'S ROTATION: The earth spins on its own imaginary axis (6612° Inclined to its orbital plane) fr...

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: How does ice retain a record of past atmospheric gas composition?       in trapped air bubbl...

A: Ice sheets have a special property. They allow us to go back in time and take another time to sample...

Q: Study the image. Which phrase describes this plate boundary? does not occur in oceans O may form rif...

A: Conservative/Transform plate boundary A conservative plate boundary, often referred to as the tra...

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: 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: Explain why so few remaining samples of these early rocks remain

A: The scraping of giant chunks of the Earth's outer layer responsible for swallowing volcanoes, crippl...

Q: What is the relationship of the “controls” of weather and climate to the “elements” of weather and c...

A: THE ELEMENTS AND CONTROLS OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE: As the words are often used casually, as in someth...

Q: please help with this!! i'm very stuck please i dont know much about latin countries

A: Latin American Countries Argentina: It is located in the southern half of South America. It occupie...

Q: Briefly describe the seven dominant controls of weather and climate.

A: Weather and climate are important for understanding the importance of atmospheric phenomenon on eart...

Q: In a simple answer what makes the lithospheric plates move in different directions?

A: Gravity is the main driving force for plate tectonics. When a plate meets another plate of the ocean...

Q: which contains information about average temperatures in Brazil a atlas a history book or a science ...

A: The atmosphere in Brazil, which ranges considerably from the predominantly warm north (the equator c...

Q: Plate Tectonics What are Convection Currents and why are they important to the movement of earth’s c...

A: CONVECTION CURRENTS: Convection currents are the movement in the interior of the earth in the form o...

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...

Q: Is it possible for a map to be both conformal and equivalent?

A: CONFORMAL AND EQUIVALENT MAP:  Conformal is a map or mathematical mapping it conserving the correct ...

Q: Distinguish between GPS and GIS (geographic information systems).

A: A GIS is a geographic positioning system and a GPS is a global positioning system a GIS is used to r...

Q: What is the importance of geography? Explain why we should learn and teach geography.

A: According to National Geographic, geography is the "study of places and relationships between people...

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: Where are transform plate boundaries most common? on the margins of continents in rift valleys ...

A: Introduction Plate Boundaries are of three types: Convergent Plate Boundaries Divergent Plate Bound...

Q: What is this answer ?

A: ASIA: The latitudinal extension of the continent is from 1° 16'S to 77° 43'N and latitudinal extensi...

Q: Define the following terms: latitude, longitude, parallel, meridian, and prime meridian.

A: LATITUDE: In geography, the term latitude means a geographic coordinate; this coordinate specifies t...

Q: Question 1 Which one is easier to predict?  Weather Climate Both weather and climate Neither weather...

A: 1. The daily operating conditions of the environment at the location, with regard to temperature, pr...

Q: Answer the following questions using the soil texture triangle developed by the United States Depart...

A: Soil Texture Triangle The soil texture triangle is one of the methods used by soil scientists to im...

Q: What pattern and relationship exist between the birth rates and the education of women? What might t...

A: World Fertility Surveys conducted in 38 developing countries show that between 2 and 98% of married ...

Q: How do measured values of weather and climate differ? Select one: Weather values are less reliable t...

A: WEATHER: Weather is the condition of the atmosphere over a small area, generally for 24 hours to one...

Q: A second‐order stream merging with a third‐order stream results in a second‐order stream. a thir...

A: Stream order is a number used to denotes the number of streams and is used in hydrology to determine...

Q: ________________ in global sea level is ultimately the result of a ________ event.  Group of answer...

A: The global sea level is called the grand base level and it is shown by the sea or ocean bottom. The ...