Answer is: the roof 13.What is the deepest lake in the world, and where is it located? * Answer: is: Caspian sea it is located in Asia- Europe 14.What is “brackish water”? Answer is: a mixture of seawater and freshwater 15. How many inches of rain does the tropical rain forest receive? Answer is: 50 to 260 inches »»»»When you see an asterisk (*), next to the answers for number 9 and 13, make sure you look on the left hand side of the webpage for an
One con is that there will be many jobs at the mine, but just not nearly as many jobs that Bristol Bay employs in the salmon industry. Another, and possibly the biggest, disadvantage of building the Pebble Mine is the negative effect on the environment in Bristol Bay. Although the company managing this says that there will be a bad affect on the environment, history tells us otherwise. We can look at the Mount Polley gold mine disaster. In this environmental disaster, 10 cubic meters of water and 4.5 million cubic meters of potentially toxic slurry were spilled into virtually untouched forest, lakes and rivers.
The highest point in the state is Guadalupe Peak at 8,749 feet above sea level. Elevation naturally rises from the east to the west and from the south to the north. Major Cities - Rainfall / Elevation Regional Average Rainfall: 8-20 inches per year Regional Average Net Evaporation rate: 52-68 inches Data source: National Climate Datat Center, U.S. Dept of Commerce. Alpine - 17.19 in. / 4,530 ft. Balmorhea - 14.19 in.
This would be terrible for the people and creatures that rely on this mighty river to live. Dams, diversions and evaporation losses from reservoirs also contribute to the lessening of water available from the river, causing ecological consequences to wildlife living in and along the river. The Colorado River used to carry up to 85 to 100 million tons of silt or sediment to the Gulf of California where it deposited into the sea. The sediment helped things along the river path grow and flourish. Over the years, the silt has been collecting in Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, and it is predicted that over the next few hundred years this lake will fill up with silt.
We hear from aquatic ecologists and fisherman as they describe the water’s in the “dead zone” and the lifeless animal life surrounding this area. Nancy Rabalais, an aquatic ecologist, explains exactly why these waters are so dead. All of the fertilizers used in agriculture from Minnesota on down to Louisiana, are concentrated and dumped into this area where the algae multiply due to the high nitrogen and phosphates. This creates an algae bloom that inadvertently lowers the oxygen in the water through its die-off. With low levels of oxygen, marine life can’t survive, and this impacts people that depend on the gulf for their
There are only 2 seasons: summer from May to October and winter from November to April. The average daytime summer temperature at sea level is 85 degree F and the average daytime winter temperature is 78 degree F. Temperatures at night are around 10 degree F. lower. According to Wilson's hotspot theory, the volcanoes of the Hawaiian chain should get slowly older and become tougher the farther they travel outside the hotspot. The oldest volcanic rocks on Kauai, the northwestern most inhabited Hawaiian island, are about 5.5 million years old and are deeply tough. By contrast, on the "Big Island" of Hawaii -- southeastern most in the chain and probably still located over the hotspot -- the oldest bare rocks are less than 0.7 million years
The deepest part of the ocean is located in a trench south of Japan and north of Papua New Guinea c. The depth of the trench exceeds the height of Mount Everest. d. The depth of the trench is estimated at 5000 meters. e. The trench is called the Mariana Trench. 9. The nebular hypothesis suggest that: a. all bodies in the solar system formed from an enormous gas cloud.
Recognized by many as the “smeltdown in the Delta,” the extinction trajectory of delta smelt, has left the once-abundant species in critical condition due to record-high water diversions, pollutants, and harmful nonnative species that thrive in the damaged delta habitat. The delta smelt is semelparous, living one year and dying after its first spawning. Delta smelt spawning occurs in spring in river channels and tidally influenced backwater sloughs upstream of the mixing zone where saltwater meets freshwater. This shift in the species center of abundance arises from the fact that while the delta smelt is a saltwater tolerant species, it is seldom found where sea
Iceland is located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and the longest mountain range in the world (Wikipedia). It separates the Eurasian plate and the North American plate near Iceland, and the section of the
According to Everglades.org, they’ve “contributed to nearly 70 percent of extinctions in the United States” and are the “primary cause of species endangerment.” The water itself is a major cause of decline to the area, firstly because of poor water management leading to water levels being too low or too high at the wrong times has caused a decline in many species. Secondly, poor water quality has had devastating consequences. The pollution and an abundance of toxins and nutrients has helped to kill off many living things in the