The statement is - True.
Mount Elbert has an elevation of 4,401 meters (which is almost three miles), and it has a prominence of 2,772 meters. It is the highest summit of the Rocky Mountains of North America. Mount Elbert also represents the highest point of the state of Colorado, and it is also the highest point of the Mississippi River drainage basin which covers 41% of the USA's territory. More specifically this peak is in the Rocky Mountains Range, Sawatch Range, Southern Rocky Mountains Range.
Answer:
B. atmosphere: because the ash blocked more radiation than normal, not allowing it to reach the surface
Explanation:
The volcanoes are one of the major factors that shape the climate on Earth. Their influence can be more moderate and gradual, or it can very big and abrupt. The large volcanic eruptions manage to cause changes in the global climate very quickly. The reason for this is that they have big influence on the atmosphere. By releasing lot of ashes and small particles into the atmosphere, a layer of them is formed around the Earth. This layer had greater albedo, thus it is reflecting the sunlight instead of letting it go through. This causes rapid drop in the global temperatures, and as was the case in 1815, it resulted in a year without summer. If the volcanic eruption is very big and comes from a super-volcano, than it can have much longer impact, lasting for decades or even centuries.
Answer:
- Reduced snow accumulations
- Earlier snowmelt in the Spring
- Spring flooding
- Less water in streams
- Reduced water availability
Explanation:
Less snow will fall in Winter due to the higher temperatures and, thus, will not accumulate. When there is less accumulated snow on the ground and the snowpack is thinner, then the snowmelt will occur earlier and faster in the Spring.
Quicker snowmelt in the Spring will result in rivers overflowing their banks because they cannot hold such a rapid influx of water. Rapid water cycle runoff will cause Spring flooding.
The snowpack will, therefore, be depleted early in the Spring season, and due to the earlier and faster snowmelt, there will be less water in the streams during the Summer.
The consequential lack of slow mountain snowmelt during the summer season will result in rivers flowing much less vigorously and with less volume over water. This means that downriver communities will face summer water shortages.
