The scientific spirit is based upon
A) hypotheses of well-known philosophers.
B) honesty and trust.
C) consensus in the scientific community.
D) experimentation.
D
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The Catskill Delta has three times more sediment than the Queenston Delta. This indicates that ____
a. Pangaea was not fully formed when the Catskill Delta developed b. the Acadian orogeny was more intense than the Taconic orogeny c. the Early Paleozoic Appalachians were taller than the Late Paleozoic Appalachians d. the Taconic orogeny was more intense than the Acadian orogeny e. the Acadian Highlands was well protected from weathering and erosion-
________ would be associated with Benioff zones.
A. Edges of continents B. Oceanic trenches C. Island arcs D. Andesite volcanoes E. All the answers are correct.
If you were hiking through the Rocky Mountains and saw a sharp ridge of peaks that looked a bit like the teeth of a saw, you might reasonably conclude that it had been shaped by what?
A) Erosion from winter snow packs. B) A strike-slip fault that caused uplift. C) Two parallel glaciers in the valleys on each side. D) Tectonic activity.
The ________ is based upon the observation that fossil species succeed one another through layers in a predictable order.
A. principle of faunal succession B. principle of original horizontality C. principle of unconformities D. principle of lateral continuity E. principle of radioactivity