Answer to Question 1Additional people must be provided with food, water, clothing, and housing at a minimum. Obtaining
these things puts a strain on the available resources, such as the soil needed to grow food. Since many
of the desirable and safe areas of the planet are already developed, future development is more likely
to be in locations that are at risk for natural disasters. More people also produce more wastes so
pollutants must be dealt with.
Answer to Question 2Water quality and distribution, soil formation and erosion, monitoring pollution, finding suitable
locations for power plants and other potentially dangerous buildings, climate change, and so onthere
are many to choose from. Geology is concerned with all aspects of the physical Earth and their
interactions with the biosphere.
The Geologic Time Scale
The geomagnetic polarity time scale shows how Earth’s magnetic pole has changed through geologic tim
During the Pullman strike in Chicago, workers protesting wage cuts did $340,000 in property damage,
What are examples of ideal forms?
Under ideal conditions, a single cell of the bacterium E. coli would divide every 20 minutes to ...
For the circuit in Figure 1, assume ideal diodes. The peak inverse voltage is approximately