The Atlantic and Pacific ‘meet’ at the southernmost tip of South America, known as Cape Horn. In this region, a strong current carries water from west to east, sweeping water from the Pacific into the Atlantic. Travelling around Cape Horn is a turbulent, dangerous journey to make by ship and has claimed many lives. Prior to the building of the Panama Canal, it was the sole route by sea between the Pacific and Atlantic.
If the contour interval of a topographic map is 50 feet, THREE contour lines would be drawn between sea level and an elevation of 175 feet.
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Typical examples of pull factors of a place are more job opportunities and better living conditions; easy availability of land for settling and agriculture, political and/or religious freedom, superior education and welfare systems, better transportation and communication facilities, better healthcare system and stress ...
Explanation:
Plate tectonics is a theory that the Earth's outer crusts are divided into seven plates that glide over the mantle. They are often blamed for earthquakes.
A common rock type found within oceanic crust is called basalt rocks. It is dark just like an igneous rock and it is basically a type of lava from a volcano.
