Given the equation for geostrophic wind is 
, which of the following will increase the wind speed?
A.
)B.
)C.
)D.
)Answer: D
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The Kyoto Protocol was ratified by 130 countries in 2004 and became international law in 2005. What is the goal of the Kyoto protocol?
A) reduction of emissions of nitrous oxide to control acid rain B) reduction of emissions from scrubbers used in industrial plants C) reduction of air pollutants from nuclear power plants D) reduction of greenhouse gas emissions E) reduction of chlorofluorocarbon emissions
A small city's sewage-treatment plant orders a 55-gallon drum of isopropyl alcohol to be used to prepare cleaning products. However, when the drum arrives, it contains methyl alcohol, which they cannot use
The manager says to reorder and get the correct alcohol. The workers wonder what to do with the unusable 55 gallons of methyl alcohol that arrived by mistake. Someone suggests just dumping it into the nearby stream. Another worker disagrees, noting that to legally dispose of the 55 gallons of methyl alcohol, they need to A) dump the alcohol into their sewage treatment tanks, which then drain into the stream. B) mix the alcohol with gasoline to make it safer, and then dump it into the stream. C) get a discharge permit, mandated under the CWA, to allow them to dump it into the stream. D) flush the alcohol into the stream using thousands of gallons of water to dilute it.
Fish with limbs containing a fleshy shaft and a series of articulating bones; one of two main
groups of bony fish:a. chordates d. Ichthyostega b. ostracoderms e. labyrinthodonts c. lobe-finned fish
Scientists from 120 countries signed onto a document issued by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The conclusion of this Panel was:
a) average sea level will rise up to two feet by the twenty-second century. b) average sea level will rise up to two inches by the twenty-second century. c) average sea level will remain steady in the twenty-second century. d) there is insufficient evidence to support a hypothesis on global climate change.