The relief of Africa has been formed by multiple different types of forces, over long periods of time, and in different periods of time.
The plateau in the central part of the continent is the oldest crust of the continent. It is the African Shield, and it has been there foe hundreds of millions of years, created initially by the volcanic activities in the distant geologic past.
The Atlas Mountain Range in the northwestern part is a result of the collision of the Eurasian plate, and it is a relatively new feature.
The Eastern highlands have been formed by volcanic activity in the past, but also in the more recent time, the rift valleys that are forming are due to the divergent plate boundary, as the eastern part of the continent is separating from the basis.
The Congo Basin and the surrounding area have been heavily influenced by the erosion, as the heat is constantly there, there's almost daily precipitation, and the rivers have done there job as well.
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local winds blow between small low and high pressure systems.They are influenced by the local geography.
Answer: True
Explanation:
The ratio of the map distance to ground distance usually involves the use of inverse relationship between the extent of coverage of the entire map and the amount of detail visible. And this relationship is always written as 1/x or 1:x.
Where the numerator represents the map distance which always equals 1 and the denominator represents the ground distance which has similar units as the numerator.
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.
It shows where earthquakes occur around the world. Geologists will make maps out of this data and find out the most earthquakes occur along plate boundaries.
