Answer:
Denudation is a process that causes the wearing away of the earths surface by moving water, by ice, by wind and by waves. this leads to a reduction in elevation and in relief of landforms and of landscapes
Answer:
which sedimentary rock would be formed by the compaction and cementation of rounded pebbles?
Conglomerate
Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that forms the cementing of rounded cobble and pebble sized rock fragments.
Explanation:
Below I have included an image that has the measure of all of the angles on it.
We can find the measures of the angles here due to the laws about complimentary angles. A pair of complimentary angles can be formed when 2 lines are perpendicular, and when added together, will always equal 90. The pair are the angles that are not directly adjacent from each other. In this figure, "x" and "(4x-10)" are a pair. According to another law, opposite angles, or adjacent angles, will always be equal to each other. Using the logic above is how we can find the measure of all angles.
Since one angle has a box, we know the lines are perpendicular, and that the laws of complimentary angles apply. We can also use that to see that the angle diagonal from it is equal to 90.
To solve for the other measures, we need to add the 2 equations together and set them equal to 90 (because of that law we talked about before).
x+(4x-10)=90
5x-10=90
+10+10
5x=100
/5 /5
x=20
Now that we know x equals 20, we can substitute that value in and solve.
x=20
=(4x-10)
=(4*20-10)
=(80-10)
=70
We also know this is correct because 20 and 70 equal 90.
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.
A global dependence on fossil fuels leads to an increased demand for limited resources. This leads to increased costs and access to resources for people and countries with greater monetary resources. Developing countries experience stand points to their development through their inability to access fossil fuel resources.