In the so called rain shadow effect we have interaction between all of the four major Earth spheres. When we have a coastal region where there's a high mountain range, the part of the mountain that is facing the sea will differ a lot from the part of the mountain that is on the other side. The water from the sea evaporates. The water vapor makes the air wet. The warm and wet air masses from the sea will come to the coastline, once they reach the mountain they will start to accumulate as they can not pass through it. As they accumulate rainfall appears. The rainfall contributes to a lush vegetation on this side of the mountain (windward side). The rain shadow effect appears on the leeward side of the mountain, and it mostly gets dry, strong, downward winds. These conditions result in drier climate, much less vegetation, and much increased erosion. Thus we can easily see that we have in this case interaction between the hydrosphere (the sea and the rainfall), the geosphere (the ground, soil, rocks), biosphere (the vegetation), and atmosphere (the winds, the clouds).

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You have 2000 g of radioactive substance with a half-life of 100 years four half-lives go by how many grams do you have the radi

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Answer:

after 4 half-lives, 125g is left

Explanation:

The half-life of a radioactive substance is the time it takes for the substance to decay by half its original mass.

In this example, we are asked to find the remaining mass after four half-lives.

What we will simply do is to reduce the starting mass by half, after each half-life decay. this is done as follows:

1st half-life decay: starting mass 2000g

final mass = 2000g ÷ 2 = 1000g

2nd half-life decay: starting mass = 1000g

final mass = 1000 ÷ 2 = 500

3rd half-life decay: starting mass = 500

final mass = 500 ÷ 2 = 250g

4th half-life decay: starting mass = 250g

final mass = 250 ÷ 2 = 125g

∴ after 4 half lives, 125g is left

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