World Geography
Which among the following pairs of volcanoes is/are correctly matched?Mount St. Helens – United StatesMount Vesuvius – ItalyMount Krakatoa – IndonesiaSelect the correct code from the options given below:
Mount St. Helens is an active strato-volcano in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is well known for its ash explosions and pyroclastic flows.Mt. Vesuvius is a somma-stratovolcano located in Naples, Italy. It is universally acknowledged to be an extremely dangerous volcano.Mount Krakatoa is a Caldera in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung.
Albedo is the proportion of insolation that is reflected back by the surface. It depends upon the nature of the surface upon which the solar radiation is incident and the angle of incidence of the solar beam.