There are a few different answers to this question, depending on what you are asking. I'll go over the main ones.
1. The Earth's axis is tilted in comparison to the Sun, so days get shorter in the winter months. This is due to less light, and therefore energy, hitting the Earth directly. Instead, that energy either misses entirely, or hits nearer to the Equator. This is why the poles have twenty-four hour days and nights depending on the season. (Night in the winter, day in the summer.)
2. In terms of the food chain, energy from the sun is converted to basic sugars by plants in a process known as photosynthesis, inside the plant's cloroplasts. Small animals such as mice and insects consume the plants, and the energy those plants converted from sunlight. This continues up the food chain until you get to apex-predators (tigers, bears, wolves, owls, etcetera).
3. In terms of electricity, solar panels are made of tons of 'solar cells' which tend to be lots of silicon atoms, which like to share electrons, and a conductive backing. (Pardon me if some of this section is incorrect, I only have a basic understanding of solar panels) When a photon (that is, a light particle) hits the silicon, it bumps off an electron, and the conductive backing catches it, resulting in a electrical current. This current is incredibly small per solar cell, so you need a ton of them to make any sort of useful power out of them. Solar panels do degrade over time, but incredibly slowly, there are some from the 1970's that still generate just as much power as they did originally (if not, only ever so slightly less).
I hope I answered what you needed to know! If you wanted a different answer, feel free to comment with some clarification and I would love to fill you in :)
In geology subduction is the process whereby one tectonic plate is forced underneath another tectonic plate along a convergent boundary. Places where this type of plate interaction occurs are called subduction zones. Subduction zones have a high rate of volcanism, earthquakes, and mountain building.
Answer:
Virgin river, western direction.
Explanation:
- As lake quail is a dammed river and lies directly over the San Andrea fault and transform boundary with the North American plate on the northward side and the pacific plate on the southern side and a stream rises in the Pine Valley Mountains and flows to the southeasterly direction.
- The pacific plate is moving in the northwest direction due to the seafloor spreading from the eastern pacific rise. while the North America is being pushed to the southwest due to the spreading of the seafloor in the mid-Atlantic ridge.
The most abundant fossil fuel is coal... Coal isn't only our most abundant fossil fuel,it's also the one with perhaps the longest history. The U.S. has more coal reserves than any other country in the world. In fact, one-fourth of the all the known coal in the world is in the U.S.
