Answer:
Shanthi Pura, Sri Lanka.
Explanation:
Shanthi Pura in Sri Lanka is the region which is located at 8°N, 81°E. This longitude and latitude readings provides information about the exact location on the earth surface. At 8°North, 81°East on the map of world, Sri Lanka is located which is a small Island in the South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean southwest direction of the Bay of Bengal and southeast direction of the Arabian Sea.
Answer:
The statement that they are characterized by rapids and waterfalls is incorrect about floodplains.
Explanation:
All other points mentioned holds for flood plains:
- Most of the floodplains are low lying areas
- They are generally, the land areas which are adjacent to streams and rivers
- They are subjected to repeated influx or flooding.
- They can be simply characterized by a relatively smooth land area on whose boundary lies water stream or river which overflows or results in flooding at the time when water is high.
Answer:
Topographic Maps
A topographic map is similar to a physical map in that it shows different physical landscape features.
Explanation:
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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 :)
Until the early Proterozic there were only negligible amounts of free oxygen in the atmosphere