Answer: C. latitude
Explanation: The climate distribution of the earth is controlled by a number of factors. These factors include latitude, elevation or altitude, nearby water (proximity of large water bodies), ocean currents, topography, vegetation, and major winds.
Latitude influences climate in that areas with higher latitudes receive less sunlight. The climate in the regions close to the equator is usually warm because equator receives the most sunlight of anywhere on Earth.
The thermocline describes D) an areas where the temperature of the ocean sharply decreases. These layer is between mixed layer and the deep water layer in the water and is a transition layer in the ocean.
Answer: Desertification
Explanation: Desertification means “the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.”
So it might also be deforestation. I hope that helps and I apologize in advance if I’m wrong.
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A "transform fault" is a fault line where two tectonic plates slide against each-other. Not all faults are transform faults. Some plates separate and allow magma to seep up and like a scab, creating new ground (these are called divergent faults.) Other faults, such as convergentfaults, occur when two plates smush into each-other and one is forced below the other where it heats up and is eventually destroyed. And the fracture zone is thus the junction between oceanic crustal regions of different ages.
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