Answer:
Temperature, precipitation, latitude, elevation, nearby water, topography, vegetation, and prevailing winds.
Explanation:
Temperature, precipitation, latitude, elevation, nearby water, topography, vegetation, and prevailing winds are the factors that helps to know the climate of a region. Floods have a large social consequences because it cause great damage to human life as well as to property, destruction of crops, and livestock, it is also cause of waterborne diseases that damage the health of affected people.
Cloud droplets collide to form larger droplets in a process called <u>coalescence</u>
Answer: Option A
<u>Explanation:</u>
When the drop lets of the cloud which are present in the air bang into each other, the result is the formation of a bigger drop let of the cloud and this whole process is known as coalescence.
And such big drop lets are big enough in their size which can result in the rainfall in that region. The droplet should at least reach a size of 4 mm to result into rainfall and this collision is a fast process.
On the West coast of North America, the coast ranges and the coastal plain form the margin. Most of the land is made of terranes that have been accreted onto the margin. In the north, the insular belt is an accreted terrane, forming the margin. This belt extends from the Wrangellia Terrane in Alaska to the Chilliwack group of Canada.
A rupture in Rodinia 750 million years ago formed a passive margin in the eastern Pacific Northwest. The breakup of Pangea 200 million years ago began the westward movement of the North American plate, creating an active margin on the western continent. As the continent drifted West, terranes were accreted onto the west coast. The timing of the accretion of the insular belt is uncertain, although the closure did not occur until at least 115 million years ago.Other Mesozoic terranes that accreted onto the continent include the Klamath Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and the Guerrero super-terrane of western Mexico.80 to 90 million years ago the subducting Farallon plate split and formed the Kula Plate to the North. This formed an area in what is now Northern California, where the plates converged forming a Mélange. North of this was the Columbia Embayment, where the continental margin was east of the surrounding areas.Many of the major batholiths date from the late Cretaceous. As the Laramide Orogeny ended around 48 million years ago, the accretion of the Siletzia terrane began in the Pacific Northwest. This began the volcanic activity in the Cascadia subduction zone, forming the modern Cascade Range, and lasted into the Miocene. Events here may relate to the ignimbrite flare-up of the southern Basin and Range. As extension in the Basin and Range Province slowed by a change in North American Plate movement circa 7 to 8 Million years ago, rifting began on the Gulf of California.
