What causes most of the differences in winds in comparison to normal surface wind directions?

A) Geographical distribution of landmasses
B) The different responses of land and ocean to solar heating
C) Chaotic flow
D) All of these choices


D

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Which of the following is not observed routinely and plotted on weather maps?

A) wind speed and direction B) pressure C) temperature D) density E) humidity

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Which measure of humidity, relative humidity or dew point, best describes the actual quantity of water vapor in a mass of air?

What will be an ideal response?

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What characterizes the third stage (industrial) of the demographic transition model? a. Birth rates remained high, but death rates dropped sharply due to medical and other innovations of the Industrial Revolution b. Birth rates begin to fall as affluence spread

c. Low birth rates and low death rates result in low population growth. d. Birth and death rates remain high. e. Population growth declines as birth rates are low and death rates are high.

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