Irrigation machinery has <u>quadrupled </u>the amount of irrigated land in the US.
Irrigation refers to the act of artificially providing water to land to support the development of crops. It is an antiquated agrarian system and may have been honed as ahead of schedule as 5000 B.C. along the banks of such consistently flooding streams as the Nile. Channels were burrowed to broaden the region secured by the surge, and dams were raised to trap water on the land after the floodwaters had died down. The advancement of preoccupation dams and of water-lifting machines allowed the water system of terrains lying over those typically come to by floodwaters. Remainders of these antiquated structures have been found in Egypt, where all farmlands are flooded; Iraq; Lebanon; Syria; China; India; Peru; Mexico; and the United States. Present day water system frameworks are as yet in view of these two key building developments.
Which aspect of government does the United States have in common with the Roman Republic? Two consuls run the executive branch. Senators are elected into office for life. There are three branches of government.Oct 22, 2014
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Serpentine
- Formation: it forms through serpentinization, a geological low-temperature metamorphic process where low-silica mafic and ultramafic rocks are oxidized and hydrolyzed with water into serpentinite.
- Characteristics: rich in magnesium and water, light to dark green, greasy-looking and slippery feeling. It can resist the transfer of heat. A source of asbestos, architectural stone, ornamental stone, gem material
- Minerals present: it follows the formula (X)2-3(Y)2O5(OH)4 where X can be magnesium, iron, nickel, aluminum, zinc, or manganese; and, Y will be silicon, aluminum, or iron.
Green Schist
- Formation: they form by regional metamorphism of mafic igneous rocks through depth of burial, and proximity to batholiths.
- Characteristics: The green is due to abundant green chlorite
- Minerals present: actinolite and epidote mainly, but they can also include quartz, orthoclase, talc, carbonate minerals, and amphibole.
Basalt Pillow
- Formation: it forms when lava of basaltic compositions erupted underwater. The rapid cooling of the lava forms the pillow-shaped bodies.
- Characteristics: they are volcanic igneous rocks, very dark, almost black color.
- Minerals present: Basalt has a lower percentage of silica and a higher percentage of iron and magnesium than other volcanic rocks.
Umber
- Formation: it develops in Cyprus massive sulfide deposits.
- Characteristics: is not one precise color, but a range of different colors, from medium to dark, from yellowish to reddish to grayish depending on the iron oxide and manganese in the clay
- Minerals present: contains iron oxide and manganese oxide and sulfide precipitates like pyrite.
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North America, the third-largest continent<span>, extends from the tiny Aleutian Islands in the northwest to the Isthmus of Panama in the south. </span>
<span>North America’s </span>physical geography<span>, </span>environment<span> and </span>resource<span>s, and </span>human geography<span> can be considered separately.</span>
<span>North America and South America are named after Italian </span>navigator<span>Amerigo Vespucci. Vespucci was the first European to suggest that the Americas were not part of the </span>East Indies<span>, but an entirely separate landmass. The portions of the landmass that widened out north of the </span>Isthmus<span> of Panama became known as North America. oh and if this helped could you give me a brainlest please? Thanks have a nice day.</span>
