What is thermal inertia?
A) The increase of heat energy
B) The propensity for a substance to resist temperature changes
C) The properties that moderate changes in temperature
D) The amount of heat energy needed to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance by 1° Celsius
B
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A)bed load only B)suspended load only C)solution load only D)bed load and suspended load E)suspended load and solution load
What did Wegener propose as the driving force behind continental drift?
a. the formation of the supercontinent Pangaea b. convection within the Earth's mantle c. pressure from ocean tides moving the continents around d. the gravitational forces of the sun and the moon e. momentum from the Earth's rotation
Along ________ new ocean floor is formed by upwelling flows of magma, whereas along ________ old oceanic crust is destroyed
A) oceanic trenches; archipelagos B) subduction zones; mid-ocean ridges C) archipelagos; oceanic trenches D) mid-ocean ridges; subduction zones