The EPA's efforts to enforce the Clean Water Act for CAFOs, mountaintop removal mining, and storm water discharges have been opposed by
A) political interests supporting the industries affected by regulation.
B) fishing organizations.
C) supporters of the Endangered Species Act.
D) the CDC on the grounds that regulation will increase water-borne diseases.
A
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Most oceanic plateaus are
A) small pieces rifted apart from continents. B) places where the seafloor has been buckled upward by convergence. C) constructed by volcanic eruptions probably over mantle plumes. D) large fan-shaped mounds deposited by turbidity currents.
Tsunamis are caused by ________
A) abnormally high and sustained winds B) boiling water entering the oceans from undersea faults C) displacement of sea water by volcanoes, earthquakes or coastal landslides D) abrupt changes in temperature of seawater E) global climate change
Which mass wasting process has the slowest rate of movement?
A) creep B) rock avalanche C) rock fall D) slump
Above the influence of friction, most winds follow a(n) ________ path
A) geostrophic B) anticyclonic C) prevailing D) clockwise E) chaotic and turbulent