Water vapor or moist air rising over a mountain will cool and precipitate as rainfall.
As water vapor, or moist air approaches a mountain, it will rise because the mountains are in the way. The higher you go up a mountain the colder it becomes. Because of the colder temperature up the mountain, the moist air will cool down to reach what is known as its dew point. The moisture in that air then condenses into clouds and eventually, rain. This is why the heaviest rain occurs on the windward slope of a mountain.
The earth’s inner core is a solid ball of iron, nickel and other metals, while the outer core is liquid metal composed of iron and nickel as well. The temperature of the inner core is estimated to be about 5,400 degrees C or 9,800 degrees F, far beyond iron’s melting point.
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Coastal mountains: colliding tectonic plates near land
Volcanoes: A portion of the crust in a seduction zone near melting
earthquakes: A sudden shift between two touching plates
Tsunami: An undersea earthquake
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D) uniformitarianism; the geologic processes that operated in the past are the same as those that operate today, and they occurred in accordance with the same laws of nature that are operating today
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When geologists conclude that the Grand Canyon sequence of rocks was formed through hundreds of millions of years of deposition, mountain building, and erosion, they are basing this conclusion on the principle of <u>uniformitarianism </u>which states that <u>the geologic processes that operated in the past are the same as those that operate today, and they occurred in accordance with the same laws of nature that are operating today</u>.
Uniformitarianism is a theory in geology which states that the changes in the earth's crust during geological history is as a result of actions of uniform and continuous processes, that the geological processes occurring currently are same processes that have been occurring in history and every part of the world and is continuous.
