Visit the Interactive Plate Boundary Map to explore satellite images of divergent boundaries between continental plates. Two locations are marked within the rift valley of East Africa and another location is marked within the Red Sea.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- On a hot day, there is no safe time to be in a car with the windows rolled up. People don't realize how hot it it can get in there, said Dr. David Pigott, emergency physician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.With an outside temperature of 90 degrees, the temperature inside a car can rise to 110 degrees in 10 minutes and 120 degrees in 20 minutes, Pigott said.atch how fast a car heats up inside on a hot summer day After the tragic death of an 11 month old child left in a closed up car happened Wednesday, I wanted to see just how fast a vehicle heats up with the windows rolled up.
Why does a car's engine get hot? Why does a car's engine get hot when it is running? A car's engine is not efficient. The engine works by converting chemical energy in the form of fuel to the mechanical energy (work) that drives the wheels and makes the car move. But only about 20 to 30 percent of the chemical energy is actually converted to mechanical energy.