Answer:
Earth's gravity is the main contributor to the water cycle.
The difference between a compound sentence and complex sentence is that a compound sentence has two independent clauses (clauses that could stand alone) and a complex sentence has one independent clause and one dependent clause.
What grade is this question from?
I can't give you all 150 words but I can give you an idea, usually the author choose as their choice of setting because they want the audience to understand what is going on in the story. This impacts the themes and progression of the Plot because you will be able to understand the conflict in the story making it easier to understand it