Copenhagen is the capital and most populous city of Denmark. The city has a population of 763,908 of whom 601,448 live in the Municipality of Copenhagen. Copenhagen is situated on the eastern coast of the island of Zealand; another small portion of the city is located on Amager, and is separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the strait of Øresund. The Øresund Bridge connects the ...
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Suva is the capital, second largest municipality and largest municipality with city status in Fiji. It is located on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu, in the Rewa Province, Central Division. Suva is Fiji's political and administrative capital. It is the largest and most cosmopolitan city in the southern Pacific Ocean and has become an important regional centre.
The city ...
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Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an administrative-limits area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles) and a 2015 population of 2,229,621. Paris is especially known for its museums and architectural landmarks: its Louvre was the most visited art museum in the world in 2016, with 7.4 million visitors.
Paris is often referred to as "The City of Light" both ...
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Havana is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba. The city has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of 728.26 km2 (281.18 sq. mi) – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the fourth largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region.
The city attracts over a million tourists ...
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Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It has a latitude of 64°08' N, making it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state, and is a popular tourist destination. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxa Bay. With a population of around 123 300, it is the heart of Iceland's cultural, economic and governmental ...
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The term ‘exogenic’ refers to external processes and phenomena that occur on or above the surface of the earth. Comet and meteoroid impacts, the tidal force of the moon and the radiation from the sun are all exogenic. Weathering effects and erosion are also exogenic processes.
A common example of an exogenous process that is not as a result of bodies in space is erosion. ...
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Granite is a light-colored igneous rock with grains large enough to be visible with the unaided eye. It forms from the slow crystallization of magma below Earth's surface. Granite is composed mainly of quartz and feldspar with minor amounts of mica, amphiboles, and other minerals.
This mineral composition usually gives granite a red, pink, gray, or white color with dark mineral grains ...
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Hydropower (or hydro energy) is a form of renewable energy that uses the water stored in dams, as well as flowing in rivers to create electricity in hydropower plants. Like other forms of electricity generation, hydropower uses a turbine to help generate electricity; using the energy of falling or flowing water to turn the blades. The rotating blades spin a generator that converts the ...
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Hard rock is uncut by soft rock, and through the process of erosion. Rocks come in a range of hardness values, mostly due to the differing strength of molecular bonds and crystal shapes. Deciding which rocks are hard really depends on what you wish to do with the rock.
A diamond is the hardest rock that we know of, but it is brittle and breaks easily. Some commonly known hard rocks ...
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Lateral erosion is one of the three different ways that rivers and streams erode their banks and beds. As the term implies, lateral erosion is the erosion that occurs on the sides, or floodplains, of a river or stream, and it is also referred to as bank erosion. The other two forms of erosion are headward erosion and downcutting erosion.
The amount of erosion that occurs is related to ...
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