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The natural resources of the Arctic are the mineral and animal resources within the Arctic Circle that can provide utility or economic benefit to humans. The mineral resources include major reserves of oil and natural gas, large quantities of minerals including iron ore, copper, nickle, zinc phosphates and diamonds.
Explanation:
The Arctic resources race refers to the competition between global entities for newly available natural resources of the Arctic. Under the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea, five nations have the legal right to exploit the Arctic’s natural resources within their exclusive economic zones: Canada, Russia, Denmark, Norway, and the United States (though the U.S. has yet to ratify the treaty, it considers the treaty to be customary international law and abides by it).
The Arctic region and its resources have recently been at the center of controversy and pose potential conflicts between nations that have differing opinions of how to manage the area, including conflicting territorial claims. In addition, the Arctic region is home to an estimated 400,000 indigenous people. If the ice continues to melt at the current rate, then these indigenous people are at risk of being displaced. The acceleration of ice depletion will contribute to climate change as a whole: melting ice releases methane, ice reflects incoming solar radiation, and without it will cause the ocean to absorb more radiation (albedo effect), heating up the water causing more ocean acidification, and melting ice will cause a rise in sea level.
The Mississippi and the Amazon are quite different in that <u>C) the </u><u>Amazon </u><u>is much </u><u>longer </u><u>than the </u><u>Mississippi</u><u>.</u>
The Amazon River:
- Is the second longest river in the world.
- Is longer than the Mississippi.
The Amazon river is measured to be a distance of 3,969 miles whilst the Mississippi is around 3,896 miles which means that the Amazon is longer than the Mississippi.
In conclusion, option C is correct.
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About 70% of the Earth's freshwater is found in the form of ice caps and glaciers -it is frozen. Out of this, the majority is actually in one place: covering the continent of Antarctica.
One could argue that there is
more water in the oceans, but it's not fresh water- it's salty water, so it's not good to drink.
Prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage
The answer is D. The Ganges is too polluted (bathing, burial, travel) to actually drink from. The Indians think of the Ganges of a religious river, therefore scattering the ashes of their dead ones and bathing the worshippers in the water.
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