What characteristics would indicate whether a rock is a clastic or nonclastic sedimentary rock?

What will be an ideal response?


Visible sediment grains, or clasts, would indicate a clastic sedimentary rock.

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Sea level is expected rise due to continued melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.  Which of the following best describes why climatologists are likely to have underestimated the rate of sea level rise?

A. ice sheets are melting from within as water flows down through fractures. B. the volume of ocean water is larger than expected. C. the greenhouse effect is more intense than expected. D. the volume of ice is larger than expected. E. the rate at which ice sheets flow into the ocean is much slower than expected.

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Foraminifera and jellyfish are examples of zooplankton

a. True b. False

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Which of the following locations experiences the greatest frequency of freezing rain due to the typical storm track of mid-latitude cyclones?

A. A B. B C. C D. D

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The place where an organism lives is its

A. habitat. B. niche. C. community. D. population. E. neighborhood.

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