The study of the transmission of light and sound in the oceans is an example of ________ oceanography

A) archaeological
B) biological
C) chemical
D) geological
E) physical


E

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

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The creation of an human-managed wetland is an example of a(n) ____________________.

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

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A population of beetles in which some individuals are blue and some individuals are green evolves by chance because more alleles of one color are transmitted to the next generation than alleles of the other color. This mechanism of evolution is known as

A. natural selection. B. mutation pressure. C. genetic drift. D. gene flow.

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A diver who weighs 500 N steps off a diving board that is 10 m above the water. The diver hits the water with kinetic energy of

A) 10 J. B) 500 J. C) 510 J. D) 5000 J. E) more than 5000 J.

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

In the following quote, who and what was James Huxley criticizing?

"Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in. . . so pages of formulae will not get a definite result of loose data." A) He thought that Hutton's time scale, based on sedimentation, was too slow. B) He thought that Earth's age, as calculated from biblical stories, was too young. C) He thought that William Thomson's heat-based model was inaccurate. D) He thought that John Joly's salty water calculations were too fastidious.

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