Answer: The lapse rate can be defined as the rate at which the temperature changes when one moves upward from the earth's atmosphere.
Explanation:
The main difference between the positive lapse rate and negative lapse rate. The lapse rate is positive in case the one goes to the elevation and the temperature decreases. But the temperature increases with the elevation. This is called temperature inversion and if the temperature increases then it is the negative lapse rate.
The answer is a) True
Since Independence, almost every African country has been plagued by the cycle of Poverty.
Poverty has led to the development of a culture of bribery and kickbacks in between almost every aspect of the government.
With little investment in education and health, the average person has suffered even more.
Many African countries have taken on billions of dollars of debt that they can never pay off.
This has resulted in a 'debt trap' where the little money a country is able to generate, has to be paid in the forms of loans.
Lack of government funds, poor infrastructure, low education, high corruption has also resulted in numerous local rebels and quasi-militia factions mushrooming to challenge what they see as failed governments.
When you combine all these factors, you can see how poverty has resulted in a Pandora's box of problems for African countries.
If the tectonic plates had higher rates of movement than what they currently do, then the surface of Earth would have been much different. The first noticeable difference would have that the average elevation would be higher than it is now. The reason for that will be that the erosion rates will remain as they are, while the orogenic processes will speed up, so there will be much faster formation of hills and mountains.
The climate would vary much faster on global level, as faster movement of the continents will contribute to fast changes in the ocean currents, and the global wind patterns, all that can have been impact on the relief.
Another thing would be the merging and breaking up of the continental masses, so a formation of a super-continent will occur, and with it lot of new land forms around the areas that are boundaries of the plates, but also that super-continent will break up quicker, so new continental masses will form quickly as well.
With the directions of movement of the tectonic plates as they are, if the rates of movement speed up, Australia will very soon merge with the southern islands of Southeast Asia, Africa (Nubian plate), North America, and Eurasia will merge, while the Somali plate of Africa will move into the Indian Ocean and close it up. South America will isolate itself from North America and move deeper into what is now the Pacific, while Antarctica will move gradually toward the Equator, all of which will make the world look much different, and with constant rise of new land forms and changes of the surface of out planet.
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To define gravity in a way you can understand, gravity means the force of something acting upon something else to bring it down back to the ground.
For example, gravity is what pulls us to the ground when we jump in the air. You can't just jump in the air and stay in place, right?
Another good example is if there was a spaceship directly in between the Earth and the Moon, it would very very very slowly go toward the earth because of its gravitational pull on the spaceship.
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