If trees are nature's lungs, then the Amazon, being the biggest and least explored rain forest in the whole World, is the Earth's whole respiratory system. Trees use carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, which means they clean the air. If the Amazon is being ruined and no trees are replaced with new ones, and factories are being built instead, this means that humans contribute to air pollution, leading to disastrous consequences for the whole flora and fauna, climate change and altogether influencing humanity.
There should be 5 because of China's range of longitude.
But on the orders of the central government, the whole country is on Beijing time, so it's all one time zone.
Of course, that means that in far Western China, the sun sometimes rises at 1:00 in the morning and it sets at 2:00 in the afternoon. But that really doesn't upset the government officials 1,000 miles away in Beijing. And you get used to it.
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B. Deposition of new layers of sediments
Explanation:
This does not affect a metamorphic process.
It has effect on sedimentary process. New layers of sediments can help to compact the underlying ones and makes the sediments more lithified.
Answer:
The difference between weather and climate is a measure of time.
Explanation:
Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time.