As a mountainous island chain, New Zealand has a complex maritime climate whose weather is greatly affected by the mountains and the sea. The climate ranges from warm sub-tropical in the north, to cool sub-temperate in the south. The prevailing winds are westerly and this leads to a reasonably high rainfall particularly in the west. New Zealand's location relative to Antarctica means that weather systems from that direction can cause very sudden deterioration in weather and extreme drops in temperature particularly in the south.
Answer:B. Intensity
Explanation:
The Intensity of an earth quake refers to the noticeable and severity effects of damage on man made structures, natural(crops and livestock) and human life at different locations. To measure the intensity of an earthquake, the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale is used and consists of 12 levels of intensity(in roman numerals) that rank the extent of damage based on observable effects with the higher levels based on structural damage.
A Level I -V1 Intensity on the scale will show slight damages to properties and treatable injuries to people, but going higher on the scale above VI shows total damage and destruction to structures and human life.
Weather is a complex phenomena. in order to solve engineering problems such as the prediction of weather, we utilize degrees of freedom (DoF)... weather is one of the many elements that need millions of DoF and still cannot accurately predict it. mainly it's a vector analysis much akin to finite element analysis where each micro degree of freedom or say molecule of air is represented as one point interconnected in a web of points and each point's properties are altered relatively (similar principles how autonomous mini drones coordinate synchoronously) to each other.
many factors are considered: pressure, temperature and density of the air for sure. friction factors. drag factors. rotation of the earth. and that's the natural phenomena. include the heat given off the land, the radiation from the sun, airplanes, people, etc... its highly complicated. having done a weather station project, it's fair to say that there isn't a simple answer to your simple question. we measured wind direction, wind current, temp and humidity, visibility, pressure, etc... and we couls measure these things, but can't really say why say the wind went east or west... except tell you that its because of millions of degrees of freedom interacting with each other simultaneously and some things like weather are just like that.
The number of minnows would increase.
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