Why one part of the earth's surface is arid and dry and a nearby part is lush and wet is explained by the term?

Acricket ball of 70g moving with a velocity of 0.5 m/s is stopped by a player in 0.5s what is the force applied to stop the ball

Astone is thrown into a pond. what happens to the amplitude of the resulting waves as they get farther from the point where the stone hit the water? explain.

Although longitudinal waves can travel through all media types what is the disadvantage of this type of wave transmission? a) he efficiency of he wave transmission is greatly diminished as the media becomes less dense b) the oscillation of one set of particles has a huge impact on neighboring particles c) particles become too close together as they bump into each other making it more likely to hit other particles down the line