Why do many countries feel Russia's supply of oil and natural gas to be unreliable?
Russia began manipulating fuel supplies and prices in its Near Abroad, with downstream effects on supplies to Western Europe. Western Europe frets because the Russian gas and oil it depends on—one-quarter of its natural gas and one-quarter of its oil—flow through a cat's cradle of politically vulnerable pipelines.
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Along divergent plate boundaries, magma formation takes place typically due to:
a) melting of the plates as they move apart as a result of frictional heating b) increased pressure from plate movement c) pressure being reduced (decompression melting) as the plates move apart d) water being released under pressure which lowers the melting temperature of the overlying asthenosphere e) hot spots, which always occur along divergent boundaries
The pressure at the bottom of the atmosphere is referred to as:
A) reference pressure. B) sea level pressure. C) lowest pressure system. D) constant surface pressure.
________ became Africa's newest independent country on July 9, 2011
A) Zimbabwe B) Sierra Leone C) The Gambia D) South Sudan
The Alps is an example of the second order of relief
Indicate whether the statement is true or false