Answer:
The number of microcontinents decreased and the size increased
Explanation:
The Proterozoic Era was between 570 million years and 2500 million years ago. It comprises of the Late, Middle and Early Era.
Small Proterozoic continents are called microcontinents. These microcontinents collided and thus their numbers decreased but their resultant collision produced high altitude massive mountain ranges of increased size. This convergence to form a continent of increase size was active between 1.5 and 10 billion years ago. What was formed by this collision was called the continent of Laurentia, which covered about 70% of the earth at that time.
1. Tensional stress (or extensional stress), which stretches rock;
2. Compressional stress, which squeezes rock; and
3. Shear stress, which result in slippage and translation.
Answer:
As you increase in elevation, there is less air above you thus the pressure decreases. As the pressure decreases, air molecules spread out further (i.e. air expands) and the temperature decreases. If the humidity is at 100 percent (because it's snowing), the temperature decreases more slowly with height.
Despite Hong Kong historically being part of China and being inhabited by Chinese people, that drastically happened in the last century. Hong Kong got into the hands of the European colonial powers, and even after they left the area, they didn't left Hong Kong. The reason why the presence in Hong Kong was kept was because of its excellent strategic position.
The newly formed nation had excellent ports and excellent location. It was quickly industrialized. That led to rapid economic growth. The economic growth and the prosperity of the small nation made, as well as it deep connections with the Western World, attracted lot of people to move in it. The Chinese population is still dominant, but over time people from all over the world moved in, thus the ethnic structure of this nation changes significantly, to a point where now it has citizens from pretty much every corner of the world.
