Does the rate of chemical weathering increase or stay the same when a rock becomes more mechanically weathered?

Consider the last statement in the prompt: "people take such environmental factors into account in their choices when deciding where to live." do all people have a choice as to where they live? what factor plays a key role in this decision and may therefore play a large role in determining quality of life?

The kidney filters potentially toxic substances in the blood, and thus “clears” the blood of those substances. this clearance function is dependent upon and proportional to the diffusion gradient of the substance across filtering capillaries, i. e. if the concentration of the substance is doubled, twice as much will be cleared from each ml of blood that is filtered. suppose that the body produces a constant amount of a substance x per unit of time. the kidneys eliminate substance x at a rate directly proportional to the concentration of the substance and the volume of blood cleared each minute (c): elimination = c × [x], where [x] is the steady-state concentration of substance x. imagine an individual with an initial concentration of x equal to [x]0 who develops kidney disease. her baseline clearance c0 drops to one half of the original (½c0). what is the new steady state concentration of x? (for simplicity, assume that substance x is 100% filtered by the kidney).

Explain how paleontologists use trilobite fossils as index fossils for various geologic time periods.