Vanilla originally came from South and Central America and the Caribbean; the first people to have cultivated vanilla evidently seem to be the Totonacs of Mexico’s East Coast. The Aztecs acquired vanilla when they conquered the Totonacs in the 15th Century; the Spanish, got it when they conquered the Aztecs.

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Nicobar island as well as _______ island belong to the geographical of Asia

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<h2> Andaman</h2>

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Explain the environmental challenges facing a rapidly developing Asia. Identify three challenges faced on this continent.

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1. Endangered Species conservation

2. Air Pollution

3. Destruction of Coral Reefs

Explanation:

"Asia sits almost entirely in the tropics, and as such, is covered in rich, dense, biologically diverse jungle." Poachers, large companies exploiting land, small farms,(Etc), have always been a large factor of how hard it is to conserve the endangered species.

Small farms and large companies burn fires trying to clear land of trees(among other things.) So that then they can exploit the land the following year.

Over the past several decades, Asia's famous coral reefs have always been in dismay. This is the result of several factors like; 1. The ocean absorbs most of the carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere each year. While this helps reduce the effects of global warming (temporarily), it also means that more of that carbon is going to be converted into carbonic acid, increasing the ocean’s acidity level.

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Based on fault trenching work, geologists can use broken soils (that geologists date in a lab using charcoal) to identify past e

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140 years is average duration of an earthquake.

Explanation:

The Hayward fault is a geologic fault that is capable of massive destruction and is 119 km long fault western base of hills of San Francisco and is parallel to the San Andreas fault. The occurrence of an earthquake of 6.8 magnitudes in 1868 was biggest earthquake in California history.

Recently various geologists have taken time interval of the past five large earthquakes and based on the past earthquakes data the interval of 140 years it will take to the formation of a large earthquake.

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