With an area of 200 square miles, Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California, is among the largest salt flats in the world. Crystals made of sodium chloride
make up most of the white, salty ground. What is likely to be true of this area?

A. it is immune to insolation.
B. it has no heat capacity.
C. it has a high albedo.
D. it receives no radiation.

The correct option is;

C. It has a high albedo

Explanation:

The measure of the property of a material that indicate the propensity of the material to reflect light without the light being absorbed is known as the measure of the albedo

A white surface reflects most of the incident light on its surface, and therefore is said to have a high albedo while a dark surface absorbs most of the incident light and is said to have a low albedo

A natural item with a low albedo is grass which reflects 20% of the radiation while the Badwater Basin which is a white sodium chloride salt flat has a high albedo.

a fossil fuel is a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis.[1] the age of the organisms and their resulting fossil fuels is typically millions of years, and sometimes exceeds 650 million years.[2] fossil fuels contain high percentages of carbon and include petroleum, coal, and natural gas.[3] other commonly used derivatives include kerosene and propane. fossil fuels range from volatile materials with low carbon to hydrogen ratios like methane, to liquids like petroleum, to nonvolatile materials composed of almost pure carbon, like anthracite coal. methane can be found in hydrocarbon fields either alone, associated with oil, or in the form of methane clathrates.

the theory that fossil fuels formed from the fossilized remains of dead plants by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth's crust over millions of years was first introduced by andreas libavius "in his 1597 alchemia [alchymia]" and later by mikhail lomonosov "as early as 1757 and certainly by 1763".[4] the first use of the term "fossil fuel" was by the german chemist caspar neumann, in english translation in 1759.[5]

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