Abiotic factors include sunlight, temperature, moisture, wind or water currents, soil type, and nutrient availability. Ocean ecosystems are impacted by abiotic factors in ways that may be different from terrestrial ecosystems.
Multifactorial disorder
Multifactorial disorders are
disorders that involve variations in multiple genes joined with environmental
causes. Diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity are multifactorial
disorder as they do not have single genetic cause but are caused by a
combination of environmental factors and life style with mutations in multiple
genes.
Claim: Whales evolved from land mammals to water mammals.
Evidence: The first whales evolved over 50 million years. One of the first whales, such as Pakicetus, were land animals with long skulls and carnivorous teeth, much like many adaptable land mammals back then and today.
Answer:
he Richter scale measures the largest wiggle (amplitude) on the recording, but other magnitude scales measure different parts of the earthquake. The USGS currently reports earthquake magnitudes using the Moment Magnitude scale, though many other magnitudes are calculated for research and comparison purposes.
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