What would happen to the peridotite if there was a decrease in pressure from that at the depth of 100 km?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Partial melting
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The fact that the trees in central Alaska look like the trees in western Siberia, despite being separated by thousands of kilometers, illustrates the theory of
A) convergent evolution. B) multiple origins. C) global dispersal. D) plate tectonics.
Compare and contrast Rayleigh scattering, Mie scattering, and nonselective scattering, and then explain why the sky is blue, sunsets are red, and clouds are gray
What will be an ideal response?
Most of India is dominated by:
A) Coniferous forest B) Desert shrub C) Tropical savanna, mixed grassland and woodland D) Tropical forest