GULF STREAM
GULF STREAM. A powerful, warm, surface current in the North Atlantic Ocean, east of North America, the Gulf Stream is one of the strongest known currents. It originates in the Gulf of Mexico as the Florida Current, with an approximate temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit, a breadth of no more than fifty miles and a depth of a mile or more. It passes through the Straits of Florida and up along the eastern coast of the United States to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Canada, driven northward by southwest winds.
As the Gulf Stream reaches Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the cold Labrador Current that flows from the north separates it from the coast. At this confluence, the warm Gulf Stream waters combine with the cold winds accompanying the Labrador Current, forming one of the densest concentrations of fog in the world. Because of this immense heat transfer, atmospheric storms tend to intensify in this region. Also at this location, the Gulf Stream is split into two currents: the Canary Currents, which are diverted southeast and carry cooler waters to the Iberian Peninsula and northwestern Africa; and the North Atlantic Drift, which flows northwest toward western Europe, providing temperate waters to the western coastal areas of Europe. The water temperature decreases with the northward flow and the breadth of the current spans several hundred miles at its widest. The average speed of the Gulf Stream is four miles per hour, slowing to one mile per hour as the current widens to the north. The Gulf Stream transports as much as 3.99 billion cubic feet of water per second, an amount greater than that carried by all of the world's rivers combined. The current's core, or jet, follows the contours of the
Answer: brazilian highlands
Explanation: a lot of people live there
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c. 400 (the closer answer)
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In Eastern Europe, Moscow is the wettest major city, where typically 689 mm of precipitation comes down on 121 days a year. But it rains or snows more often in Bratislava, Slovakia where an average 557 mm (21.9 inches) falls over 144 days annually.
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a. bridges suspended almost 100 feet off the ground; to be able to walk among the top canopy of a rainforest means that bridges suspended of around 100 feet are required. This is due the fact that in the fierce competition of the trees in the rainforest for getting sunlight, some species manage to reach very big heights to overshadow their competition.
a. True; reclamation can restore an environment affected by mining and mostly return it to a state to be able to sustain its ecosystem. Even though it is not the most perfect method and there's still consequences to the ecosystem, still it is the best so far that manages to return the environment close to its initial shape. Unfortunately it is not a widely used method and the mining companies should definitely be forced to practice it much more.
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A hot ball of gas that produces energy by combining atoms into heavier atoms.
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A star is a huge glowing ball of hot gas, mainly hydrogen and helium. Stars fuse atoms in their core to produce heat and light energy. An example of a star is the sun, which slams hydrogen atoms together under high heat and pressure resulting in a much heavier atom, a helium atom. Very heavy elements are made in massive starts when they die.
