El Niño is a natural event that periodically weakens the
western surface of ocean currents in the equatorial pacific ocean. In an El Niño,
the wind that pushes water around (which keeps the east warm and west cold)
gets weaker making the ocean warmer, changing the air temperature and precipitation patterns in the United States.
Answer:
BIRTH RATE: The number of people being born per year
DEATH RATE: The number of people dying per year
TOTAL FERTILITY RATE: The fertility rate at a given age is the number of children born alive to women of that age during the year as a proportion of the average annual population of women of the same age.
INFANT MORTALITY RATE: The number of infants dying each year
LIFE EXPECTANCY: the average period that a person may expect to live
Explanation:
The Earth rumbles and a hiss of steam issues from the top of Mt Ruapehu. Are these two events related? Is the earthquake caused by the volcano? Or is the steam caused by the earthquake?
Tectonic plates
When Alfred Wegener first proposed the idea of continental drift (the precursor idea to plate tectonic theory), it didn’t quite explain the full story. While he correctly showed that Africa and South America fitted together, his model wasn’t able to explain the violent forces that occur around the Earth’scrust.
