How do forest fires affect the earth's atmosphere?
a) wind strength is reduced due to the combination of heat and smoke.
b) the smoke from large forest fires makes breathing the air difficult.
c) the gases released from burning trees cleans out the co2 in the air.
d) the heated air above the forest fire causes more thunderstorms to form.

Which of the following correctly describes the early view of catastrophism?

If the area of a square has increased by a factor of 16, by how much has each side increased?

Consider a file currently consisting of 200 blocks. assume that the file control block (and the index block in the case of indexed allocation) is already in memory. calculate how many disk i/o operations are required for contiguous, linked, and indexed (single-level) allocation strategies, for each of the conditions listed below. in the contiguous-allocation case, assume that there is not room to grow at the beginning but there is room to grow at the end. also assume that the block information to be added is stored in memory.