Mercury is a liquid at room temperature, gallium will melt if held in your hand, and aluminum is a solid that has a high melting point. All three are metals. How can you explain these observations using information about the strength of metallic bonds?

aquifers are bounded above and below by impermeable rock. the driving force of groundwater movement in confined aquifers is pressure, rather than gravity.

hurricanes form when warm, moist air from the ocean surface quickly rises into the atmosphere and forms storm clouds and rain. when the clouds are formed, heat is released which warms the cool air in the upper regions of the atmosphere so that the cycle can continue. which two phases of the water cycle are repeated in this process?