The guiana highlands cover part of all the following except: d.agrentina
Answer:
Correct answer is: Due to interaction between Pacific and North American plate.
Explanation:
Mountain Redoubt is located in south Alaska. Mentioned mountain is in the vicinity of convergent plate boundary between North American and Pacific plate.
Convergent boundary means that those plates are <em>colliding</em>. One plate always slides beneath another, and in this case Pacific plate slides beneath North American. Area of collision is known as subduction zone.
Pacific plate is oceanic plate, and North American is continental plate. Oceanic plates <u>always slides</u> beneath continental ones. Reason for that is due to their density. Oceanic plates are denser, so they go under continental ones.
Pacific and North American plate interaction is typicall oceanic-continetal boundary where <em>earthquakes</em> (seismic activity) and <em>active volcanoes</em> are common. Some of the strongest earthquakes happened in this area. That was in 1964 in Prince William Sound in the south coast of Alaska. Magnitude was 9.2M, second strongest quake ever recorded in world's history.
Answer: A.Santa Ana
Explanation:
This description perfectly agrees with the Santa Ana Winds (also called Santana Winds), which are due to a meteorological phenomenon that occurs between southern California and northern Baja California during autum and early winter (although they can also occur in the other seasons of the year). In this sense, strong winds are caused by high air pressure circulating clockwise at high altitudes in the Great Basin between Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains (and the Mojave Desert).
It should be noted that these winds are characteristic of the region, which dry the vegetation, knock down electric utility poles and trees, and sometimes transport hot embers, being the main cause of fire spread.
The answer is the ocean-continental convergence. This is where the gold of the Inca civilization come from.
Question Continuation
1. Mercury goes through a full cycle of phases
2. Moon rises in east, sets in west each day
3. Stars circle daily around north or south celestial pole
Answer:
The true statements are are (2) and (3)
2. Moon rises in east, sets in west each day.
From all part of the earth, we can see and observe the moon only that the stars move in parallel to the horizon in the north pole.
3. Stars circle daily around north or south celestial pole.
The relative position of starts are always altered because of the earth's rotation
While (1) does not really occur as seen from Earth
1. Mercury goes through a full cycle of phases
We can see the mercury from the Earth but in its whole form not in its phases.
