Natrual Disasters
What Natrual disasters are made due to the tectonic plates ?
What are biotic factors and name five of them ?
Biotic factors are the living organisms (plants, animals and microorganisms) that are part of a given environment.
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Which landform is the hottest
Desert
What are biospheres ?
The biosphere is a narrow zone of the earth where land, water, air interact with each other to support life. It is in this zone that life exists. There are several species of organisms that vary in size from microbes and bacteria to large mammals.
What does Sustainability mean ?
The ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level.
What was the deadliest Earthquake and where was it and at what time ?
Shaanxi, China in 1556
What are abiotic factors and name five of them ?
Abiotic factors are the nonliving elements that compose a given environment, such as light, temperature, minerals, water, gases, atmospheric pressure, etc.
What are the landforms ? Name the highest in each one of them . Largest for island, delta , and desert.
Mountains - Mount Everest
PLateaus - Tibetan Plateau
Mesas - Grand Mesa
Buttes - Menan Buttes
Volcano - Ojos del Salade
Desert - (largest) Sahara desert (Antartica is a POlar Ice Cap desert)
Deltas - Ganges Delta
Islands - (largest) Greenland
Where is the largest biosphere ?
UNESCO declares the largest biosphere reserve in North America
The new biosphere reserve encompasses Great Bear Lake and its surrounding watershed in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Three Pillars of Sustanabiilty .
Therefore, sustainability is made up of three pillars: the economy, society, and the environment.
What was the deadliest natural disaster event and how many people did it kill ?
4,000,000
1931 China floods
What is an ecosystem?
An ecosystem is a system composed of interacting biotic and abiotic factors.
How do islands form ?
As volcanoes erupt, they build up layers of lava that may eventually break the water's surface. When the tops of the volcanoes appear above the water, an island is formed. While the volcano is still beneath the ocean surface, it is called a seamount. Oceanic islands can form from different types of volcanoes.
What was the first biosphere reserve ?
Nilgiri
Why do we need to be sustainable ?
How do fire whirls become fire whirls ?
Fire whirls are basically like tornadoes inside of a fire. ... They form when very intense heat from a fire rises and surrounding air rushes in to replace it. This creates a spinning column of air. That's when you get a fire whirl or a fire tornado to form.
What is the difference between an ecological niche and a habitat?
An ecological niche is a set of particular activities, resources and strategies that a species explores to survive and reproduce.
A habitat is the place where the species lives to explore its ecological niche.
How did the Himalayas form ?
This immense mountain range began to form between 40 and 50 million years ago, when two large landmasses, India and Eurasia, driven by plate movement, collided. ... The pressure of the impinging plates could only be relieved by thrusting skyward, contorting the collision zone, and forming the jagged Himalayan peaks.
What biosphere do we live in ?
Niagra Escarpmant
What does a sustainable city mean ? WHat is my city name ?
It means a city that can thrive without any other outside help. My city name is Vivacity .
How many tectonic plates are there and name them ?
There are seven major plates: African, Antarctic, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, North American, Pacific and South American
What is an "niche" and what is the niche of the Vaquita ?
Ecological niche is a term for the position of a species within an ecosystem, describing both the range of conditions necessary for persistence of the species, and its ecological role in the ecosystem.
They are eaten by sharks and killer whales, making them a second level consumer, unlike many other whales which are at the top of the food chains.
Which landform is the best for growing crops ?
Delta
The prefix of Biosphere means ...
Bio means of life or living things.
Where was my city located near ?
West of Madagascar .