List the factors that cause land and water to heat and cool differently
What will be an ideal response?
The specific heat of land and water (greater for water than land), the opacity (water is transparent, and land is opaque), mixing of heated material (heated water mixes with cooler water below; this does not happen on land), and evaporation (far greater for water than land).
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Your job as a fisheries and wildlife officer is to decide how many fish you should allow to be harvested so as to sustain the sport fishing industry while maintaining the fish population. Assuming the fish population normally experiences logistic population growth, which of the following options would seem to make the most sense in managing this fish population? A) Allow harvesting to a level of the species' full carrying capacity. B) Allow harvesting only above the species' carrying capacity. C) Allow harvesting to a level of half of the species' carrying capacity. D) Allow harvesting to a level of 1/10 of the species' carrying capacity.
If a point on the coast experiences a semi-diurnal tide, what does the daily tide record show?
a) One high tide and one low tide per day b) One high tide (half a tide) one day and one low tide the next c) Either one or two high tides each day, as long as they don't change much d) Two nearly equal high tides and two nearly equal low tides each day e) Two unequal high tides and two unequal low tides each day
Ethanol, once widely used in gasoline (to make "gasohol"), is no longer used in gasoline, because there is no longer a worldwide shortage of petroleum fuels.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The supercontinent of Pangaea began to break up during the ________ era
A) Precambrian B) Mesozoic C) Paleozoic D) Cenozoic