Answer: B. participate in the hydrologic cycle
Explanation: Residence time of water is the rate of water in a water reservoir such as the ocean or the atmosphere divided by how fast more water is added to it or lost from it.
While residence time is thousands of years in oceans, water in the atmosphere has a short residence time of abut 10 – 11 days. This allows it to participate in the hydrologic cycle which includes evaporation and precipitation. Water in the atmosphere precipitates as snow or rain, returning to other water reservoirs.
There are multiple reasons for the variations in type, quality, and quantity in minerals, such as:
- place of formation, on the surface, or inside the ground and how deep inside.
- pressure; extremely important for the structure of the minerals as well as the mixing of mineral types.
- temperature; similar to the pressure, in fact in combination with it, affects the structure of the minerals.
- tectonic activity and volcanic activity; cause the other factors and are also responsible for the quantity of minerals.
Countries with anti-natalist policies are China, India, and Uzbekistan.
Explanation:
The countries can roughly be divided into having pro-natalist or anti-natalist policies. The decision as to which of these two policies is implement depends on the area available, population size, increase or decrease rates, and available resources. Some countries have been swinging between the two policies, setting one for a decade and than turning to the other for a decade, returning to the previous one, and again to the other one, like in the case of Iran.
Some countries that have anti-natalist policies are:
China has such policy for several decades now. Initially it was only one child per family that was allowed, and only few years ago it was allowed for two children by family. The reason for this was the rapid increase of the already huge population and the fear that it will lead to economic and social collapse on the long run. The same problem has been the case in India as well. Even though there are policies that are anti-natalist, the people don't seem to apply to them, though the birthrates have been steadily dropping recently due to the development and gradual increase of the standard of living. Uzbekistan, on the other hand, is castrating the women after they have two children. The reason for this is that the country doesn't have enough resources so they desperately are trying to not become overpopulated and collapse.
The correct answer is - drought/dry season.
This can be taken in two ways;
- A long period with little to no rain, that is not typical for the climate type of the particular place;
In this case, we are talking about a drought, when there is a period of little to no rain, that is not usually appearing at that place, but instead changed the typical climate pattern.
- A long period with little to no rain, that is typical for the climate type of the particular place;
In this case, we are talking about a dry season, and this appears at places where there's climate types where there's wet season and dry season. In this places this is a typical, expected occurrence because it is in the right order with the climate pattern of the place.
