The Emperor Seamount-Hawaiian Island chain
a. is a line of active volcanoes.
b. is a line of extinct volcanic structures.
c. results from volcanism along a mid-ocean ridge.
d. records the direction of plate motion.
d. records the direction of plate motion.
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A) 0.5 m. B) 1 m. C) 2 m. D) none of the above
The ancestors of whales lived on land
a. True b. False
The inner core and the outer core are compositionally the same. The major difference between them is the states of matter in which they exist
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
The crust and the mantle are divided into the following layers in order of increasing depth:
A. lithosphere, mesosphere, asthenosphere B. mesosphere, lithosphere, asthenosphere C. lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere D. asthenosphere, lithosphere, mesosphere E. asthenosphere, mesosphere, lithosphere