The rotating loops of currents that occur in the ocean are referred to as gyres.
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The investigation of past atmospheric compositions and past climate will help us understand the extent to which the use of fossil fuel has, and is still altering the atmosphere. These investigations will shed light on how much damage or good (if any) these fossil fuel usage is doing to the atmosphere and then we may from these investigations, put regulations, or total ban on some of these fossil fuels (if not ban their usage completely) in an effort to return the atmosphere back to its healthy composition, and proportion of useful elements.
The Earth is not getting hotter because it is getting to the center of the universe.
There's two main reasons as to why the Earth is getting hotter:
1. Natural cycle
We are in a period when the Earth is in between glaciation, with one of them being behind us, and the other one being in the future. In the period in between, the Earth has the tendency to become warmer and warmer because of the change of the composition of the atmosphere, as well as the ocean currents.
2. Human activity
The people have been contributing for the increase in the warming process in the past century, and that has been done with the large release of CO2 and methane in the atmosphere. These two gases are gases that trap more heat in the atmosphere, thus resulting in an increase of the Greenhouse effect.
I'm pretty sure it's the Eichhornia crassipes. It is a water hyacinth, and it was overgrown in the Lake Victoria area.
West of the Mississippi River has many more mountains due to more recent orogenic processes. Blackhills, Rocky Mountains, Cascades, Sierras.... List goes on.
