The modern climate interval, which is characterized by stable, warm temperatures compared to most of the last 2.6 million years, is known as the:

a. Altithermal.
b. Little Warm Age.
c. Holocene.
d. Pleistocene.


C

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Although we don't know for sure, changes in the strength and orientation of earth's magnetic field are most likely due to

A) fluctuations in outer-core convection. B) variations in sea-floor spreading rates. C) the total number of mantle hot spots. D) changes in the velocity of subducting plates.

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A) high B) low C) constantly variable D) adiabatic E) devaporized

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________ soils commonly consist entirely of O and A horizons

A) Forest B) Rainforest C) Grassland D) Desert E) Wetland

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