What biome comprises the majority of the central United States?
a. Desert and desert shrub
b. Prairie and steppe
c. Temperate mixed forest
d. Savanna
e. Mediterranean scrub
B
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After tropical storm Jeanne, one immediate consequence of Haiti's forestry practices was to ________
A) increase volume and speed of rainfall runoff B) decrease important sediments brought to cropland C) increase the demand for wood products from forests D) pollute tropical oceans decreasing tourism E) reduce NPP values that affected food growing potential
What ideas brought a renewed interest to the idea of continental drift?
A. evidence that a large meteorite caused extinction of the dinosaurs B. evidence that the entire Earth was once frozen C. data that a submarine mountain occurred beneath the middle of the Atlantic Ocean D. evidence that similar meteorites fall on different continents
What is the major difference between the crust and the lithosphere?
A) The crust is cool and the lithosphere is hot. B) The crust is compositionally distinct from the mantle, but the lithosphere is the rigid part of the crust and mantle. C) The crust is located above the lithosphere. D) The crust is located between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere. E) The crust is the rigid part of the earth and the lithosphere will flow.
A ________ occurs when convergent motion forces rocks to move upward along the fault plane
A) thrust fault B) normal fault C) strike-slip fault D) lateral fault E) shear fault