Earthquakes are mainly known to occur at plate boundaries where plates converge, diverge or slide past each other. Earthquake activity sometimes accompany volcanic eruptions but these too are concentrated around some plate boundaries (convergent, divergent).
Smaller earthquakes are known to occur in intra-plate regions, away from margins. These occur simply because of stresses being built up in rocks. The crust is solid and rigid and it floats on the mantle which is a curved surface like the crust.
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Answer:
A) overfishing in previous years and warm waters with few nutrients
Explanation:
Under El Niño conditions, there is a tropical stream, which is usually weak, that acquires strength while the opposite streams debilitate. This event impedes warm water to go eastward, remaining in South America´s coasts, which produces unusual precipitations in Chile followed by floral bloom in Atacama desert and fewer precipitations events in Eastsouth Asia and North Australia. During and after the El Niño, occurs a fishery crisis because there is no upwelling on the coasts of South America, nutrients from the bottom do no ascend, and fish populations remain equal or decrease.
Around 1970, there was e<u>xcessive overexploitation of fishes</u>. This overfishing probably led to a significant decrease in the anchovy population size, reducing the number of individuals in the reproductive stage, especially the females. The graph reflects that during the following years, there were also peaks in anchovy catch. The population did not have enough time to recover from the highest peak in 1970.
From 1982-1983 El Niño event was severe. No upwelling meant no nutrients to survive, and that the remaining anchovy population, previously affected by fishery, hardly made it that year. There was probably a fishery crisis, and hence, no animals were caught in 1984.
It is usually the process of converting an item from one form to other and its meaning and purposes differ as per the scientific/business/engineering practices referred.
In genetics, It is the process of making an RNA copy of a gene sequence. This copy, called a messenger RNA molecule, leaves cell nucleus and enters the cytoplasm where it directs synthesis of the protein, which it encodes.
<span>The answer is Archaeopteryx fossil share traits with both birds and reptiles</span>
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<span>Archaeopteryx was a bird-like dinosaur. It lived in an archipelago
of islands that later formed Europe 150 millions of years ago. It was a
raven-size. It had a feather and wing and was able to fly. Despite
that, it was more similar to the dinosaurs than the modern birds, with its
sharp teeth, claws, and skeleton. Nevertheless, it represents
transitional fossil between reptiles and birds.</span>
Answer:
Element found in quartz is Oxygen and silicon