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Your question: What is the final destination for runoff that flows on the surface of the continents?
Your answer: Magma flowing on the earth's surface is the final destination for runoff that flows on the surface of the continents.
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Answer:
<u>D. Gradient decreases, discharge increases.</u>
Explanation:
- As steam is a body of water that carries rock particles and dissolved ions, discharge is measured in terms of volume/time (m3/sec). So when a river discharges its flow from a headwater to its mouth the velocity increases in the downstream direction.
- Thus the river load-carrying capacity increases downwards and so does the discharge rate. The discharge rate can also be influenced due to the rainfall patterns, volume of water and velocity of flow.
- Rock types also impact the streamflow if it is a porous rock, the surface will absorb more of moisture content and comparative more will be the water penetration towers the mouth of the flow.
Earth's mantle has kept contributing to the Earth's atmosphere through a process called degassing. During this process, gases are emitted from the magma in the mantle and are transferred into the atmosphere through tectonic procedure such as ocean ridge spreading and volcanism.
