Explanation:
The general fertility rate is an age/sex-specific birth rate while the total fertility rate is an age/sex-adjusted birth rate. The TFR is an age-adjusted rate because it is based on the assumption that there are the same number of women in each age group.
Answer:
Hydraulic engineering is just a part of civil engineering. It is based on flow and conveyance of fluids, mainly water and sewage. It can be seen as an application of fluid mechanics for taking care of problems arising during storage, transport, regulation, measurement and use of water. This is needed while designing dams, canals, or cooling water facilities for thermal power plants.
Across the world, mining contributes to erosion, sinkholes, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, significant use of water resources, dammed rivers and ponded waters, wastewater disposal issues, acid mine drainage and contamination of soil, ground and surface water.
The correct answer is - the Atlantic Ocean.
If South and Southeast Asia are excluded, then the moistest places on the Earth are influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. This places are the Amazon basin, the Caribbean islands, southern half of Central America, the east coast of North America, Western Africa, Ireland, and the British Islands. All of this places are very moist and it is a direct result of the Atlantic Ocean which has warm and moist currents that deliver the moisture in all of this places.
Answer:
Geysers
Explanation:
New Zealand lies on the edge of tectonic plates, this causes one plate to go up and the other to go down. This pushes up the earth creating mountains, geysers, etc