A mirage that forms with warm air above a cool water surface is

A) an inferior mirage.
B) a superior mirage.
C) a desert mirage.
D) a twilight mirage.


Answer: B

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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a. ductile point b. strength c. unconfined compressive strength d. elastic limit

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A mass movement in which a cohesive block of earth or rock slips downhill relatively quickly in one piece along a zone of weakness is called a

A. slide B. slump C. fall D. creep E. flow

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What is an accretionary wedge?

A) Deformed and thrust-faulted continental lithosphere B) A fan of sediments at the bottom of a deep-ocean trench C) Sediments and ocean crust fragments being scraped off of a subducting plate D) Fault blocks that are slipping down due to extension in a back-arc basin

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