The quantity of natural resources in Africa led European nations to colonize Africa.
Answer: Option 3
<u>Explanation:</u>
Africa is well known for its natural resources. African countries’ soil was rich in minerals. Also, some of the African Countries are abundant with Oil resources.
The Europeans Colonized Africa as they can trade that wide variety of mineral resources and all the organic products. That includes Diamonds to rocks that contained uranium, zinc, tungsten, etc.. Also, tea, coffee, sugar, and tobacco were 90% percent of the exports from Africa.
Answer:
They receive less radiation from the sun, due to their orientation relative to incoming sunlight.
Explanation:
Earth has multiple different climate zones, roughly arranged by latitude. The difference in climates comes because of multiple factors, but the most important one is the Sun and the sunlight of it. Because Earth has a rounded shape, different parts of it receive different amounts of sunlight.
If we compare the tropical and polar regions as two contrasting regions, we can see huge differences. The tropical regions are warm or hot all year round, while the polar regions are very cold throughout all of the year. The tropical regions though receive sunlight at a much more direct angle, thus the sunlight is much more concentrated and heats up the region. The polar regions receive sunlight at a very low angle, so they are dispersing over a very wide area so they can not warm up the region.
Ultramafic,as components of mafic rocks like olivine and pyroxene solidified at very high temperatures, so mafic minerals will decompose as the result of chemical weathering more rapidly than felsic minerals
Answer:
In this unit, we will be discussing Latitude as a climatic control. By latitude we are not talking about geographic location. Rather our interest will center on the effect of latitudinal location on the receipt of solar energy at the Earth's surface. To a degree the Greeks were on to the idea when they proposed their Torrid, Temperate and Frigid temperature zones over 2000 years ago.
02. Specifically in this section on Latitude, we are going to cover four topics:
Earth-Sun Relationships. This section will deal with the actual receipt of solar energy at the Earth's surface. The receipt of solar energy is directly related to the relationships which exist between the Earth and the Sun across the year. All of you would recognize the basic relationships. Each day we can see that the Sun "rises" in the east and sets in the west. Most would also recognize that over a 12 month period the Sun "moves" from north to south in our sky. In other words, the Sun not only "moves" from east to west, but also north to south. And how about the fact that days tend to get longer in the northern hemisphere from December 21 to June 21, and then grow shorter from June 21 to December 21? Earth-Sun relationships cause changes in the amount of insolation received day to day and seasonally. And, depending upon the relationship, the amount of insolation changes locationally and through time. The resultant temperatures created due to these changing relationships create pressure differences which are largely responsible for winds. The winds in turn drive the ocean currents and our weather.
