Explanation:
Ocean currents act much like a conveyor belt, transporting warm water and precipitation drom the equator toward the poles and cold water from the poles baxk to the tropics . Thus, ocean currents regulate global climate, helping to counteract the uneven distribution of solar radiation reaching Earth's surface
There are a few different answers to this question, depending on what you are asking. I'll go over the main ones.
1. The Earth's axis is tilted in comparison to the Sun, so days get shorter in the winter months. This is due to less light, and therefore energy, hitting the Earth directly. Instead, that energy either misses entirely, or hits nearer to the Equator. This is why the poles have twenty-four hour days and nights depending on the season. (Night in the winter, day in the summer.)
2. In terms of the food chain, energy from the sun is converted to basic sugars by plants in a process known as photosynthesis, inside the plant's cloroplasts. Small animals such as mice and insects consume the plants, and the energy those plants converted from sunlight. This continues up the food chain until you get to apex-predators (tigers, bears, wolves, owls, etcetera).
3. In terms of electricity, solar panels are made of tons of 'solar cells' which tend to be lots of silicon atoms, which like to share electrons, and a conductive backing. (Pardon me if some of this section is incorrect, I only have a basic understanding of solar panels) When a photon (that is, a light particle) hits the silicon, it bumps off an electron, and the conductive backing catches it, resulting in a electrical current. This current is incredibly small per solar cell, so you need a ton of them to make any sort of useful power out of them. Solar panels do degrade over time, but incredibly slowly, there are some from the 1970's that still generate just as much power as they did originally (if not, only ever so slightly less).
I hope I answered what you needed to know! If you wanted a different answer, feel free to comment with some clarification and I would love to fill you in :)
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A. It gauges fault movement during an earthquake.
D. It increases in magnitude as the amount of damage increases.
E. It determines an earthquake’s magnitude based on the size of its seismic waves.
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The Richter magnitude scale determines the magnitude that is the size of the earthquake. It can measure earthquakes even of 4.5 or above all over the world through the use of seismograph where seismic waves interprets the magnitude of earthquake. A Richter number of less than 2.0 is not felt by people whereas Richter number of 8.0 to 9.9 show massive destruction. Hence the magnitude of increases of Richter scale when damage is increased.
Urbanization caused many people to cluster into large cities. When a city was forming, many jobs began to open. People would leave their unstable farming, trading, fishing etc.. jobs in the rural areas for a more secure factory, office, business job opportunity in the city. This means that the population is distributed unevenly across the US, with the majority of people living in urban areas.
