Continental/Continental: The Himalayas. The Himalayan mountain range and Tibetan plateau have formed as a result of the collision between the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate which began 50 million years ago and continues today.
Answer:
Wind erosion is a natural process that moves soil from one location to another by wind power. It can cause significant economic and environmental damage. Wind erosion can be caused by a light wind that rolls soil particles along the surface through to a strong wind that lifts a large volume of soil particles into the air to create dust storms.
Explanation:
Answer:
Earthquakes and volcanoes
Explanation:
Earthquakes are caused by any type of plate movement in response to the plates reacting to one another in some way.
Volcanoes can be caused when there is a plate being sucked under another plate causing magma to rise up and eventually errupt.
Answer:
The correct answer is Bir Tawil.
Explanation:
Bir Tawil is a small area located between Egypt and Sudan, which is in dispute for these two countries. It is said to be the only territory in the world (along with a small portion of the Antarctic), which does not belong to anyone. However, there are constant claims from these two countries that claim to have sovereignty in this territory, but this has not been settled in international courts. Bir Tawil forms a kind of triangle of approximately 2000 m2, and recently a US citizen named Jeremiah Heaton symbolically claimed his sovereignty over these lands to proclaim his little daughter as queen, but no state in the world has recognized him.
Well first, cons
1.) We can't forecast the timing, so that's a biggie. The prospects of forecasting the timing for earthquakes is quite dim at the moment and not in the foreseable future.
2.)Unless you predict earthquakes 100% of the time then improper forecasting can actually result in fatalities and lifeloss.
3.)If we could predict earthquakes, there would be some huge societal implications. For instance Hurricane Katrina was predicted several days out but that didn't result in a wholly successful evacuation of New Orleans which was biased against the poor.
4.)Accurate forecasting would not change the need for preparedness and good building codes. The ground is still going to shake, buildings still need to resist lateral seismic forces, people still need to be prepared for not having gas, water, telecom, electricity, for a certain amount of time.
And pros,
It would relieve some peoples anxiety about "when the big one" is going to hit. But then that would turn into "how big is the big one" anxiety.
The questions you ask can be considered similar to "what are the pros and cons of forecasting when each of us will die". It doesn't change the fact, just what and how we worry about it.
