The equator and the International Date Line cross in the area of Pacific Ocean. There is a tradition to celebrate the first sailor's crossing of the line.
Answer:
Yali´s question: "Why you white man have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little?"
Explanation:
This question from Yali, a Papua New Guinean political leader, led Diamond to develop his research published as Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997).
The question refers to the word cargo as New Guineans use it, meaning the goods brought by Westerners, which were considered as proof of the white man’s strength.
Yali’s question is actually about the roots of inequality.
Answer:
the particles are precipitated by bottom-dwelling organisms
Explanation:
- The calcareous ooze is formed by the 30% of the microscopic shells that a known as the tests and are formed by the foraminifera, coccolithophores, and pteropods, which are most common sediments on the seafloor by area and cover about 50 % of the oceanic floor. And can be converted to stone by the process of compaction and cementation and re-crystallization.
