________ are fractures in bedrock along which sliding movement has taken place.
A. Joints
B. Strains
C. Strikes
D. Faults
E. Planes
Answer: D
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A. The temperature in the cloud must be -40°C or below. B. Only ice crystals need be present in a cloud. C. The cloud must be cumuliform. D. Ice crystals grow larger at the expense of the surrounding liquid cloud droplets.
Warm air rising from the fluctuating location of the warm pool becomes incorporated into
A) the westward moving Walker cell and eastward moving Hadley cell. B) the eastward moving Walker cell and westward moving Hadley cell. C) the westward moving subtropical and polar front jet streams. D) the eastward moving subtropical and polar front jet streams.
What is the source of most of the dissolved materials found in the ocean?
A) Outgassing B) Convection currents C) Dissolving and weathering of crustal rocks D) Biological activities
The most luxuriant vegetation found in any climatic realm is the ________
A) taiga B) tropical rain forest C) tundra D) savannah E) mid-latitude forest