Changes in pressure cause wind to blow.
Answer: After the hurricane, Galveston raised the elevation of many new buildings by more than 10 feet (3 meters). The city also built an extensive seawall to act as a buffer against future storms. Despite the reconstruction, the city's status as the premier shipping port was lost to Houston a few years after the disaster. Ike, however, is projected to head west on a path that will take it close to Hispaniola, Cuba, and the Florida Straits.”
Explanation:
The correct answer is - False.
The Boreal forest is part of the Taiga biome, not of the Alpine one. It is located on the northern hemisphere, form Norway to the Pacific coast of Russia, and from the pacific to the Atlantic coast of the northern half of North America and it occupies the biggest space compared to any other biome in the world. It is a place where there's short humid summers, and very long, extremely cold, snowy winters. It is a biome where the coniferous forest dominates, and some of the animals that live here are the lynx, bears, wolfs, elk, deer, moos...
Question Options:
A. A and B
B. B and C
C. C and D
D. A and C
E. B and D
Answer: C and D. C is near Hawaii, D is along a mid-ocean ridge
Hotspot in geology is the surface manifestation of a plume that rises from deep in the celestial body's mantle.
Divergent margins also known as rift zones, shield volcanoes tend to form as two oceanic plates pull slowly apart and magma effuses upward through the gap.
The sites based on history that has volcanism related to a hot spot or divergent margin are Hawaii and the mid-ocean ridge. Hawaiian volcanoes within the Pacific Plate are caused by anomalous volcanism.
They contain fluorine atoms, carbon atoms and chlorine atoms.
