Which of the following geographic areas are associated with the collision-coalescence process?
A) polar areas
B) high latitude
C) mid-latitudes
D) tropics
Answer: D
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A) manufacturing. B) trapping. C) mining. D) services like police and firefighters. E) banking.
How has passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) altered the political economy of MexAmerica during the past decade or so?
What will be an ideal response?
Mountain ranges play an important role in determining climates because of their influence upon:
A) solar heating. B) air pressure. C) air density. D) land and water contrasts. E) rainfall distribution.
Venus is usually described as a runaway greenhouse effect world, which is true in the sense that the atmosphere is mostly CO2. However, there is an important factor that relates to earth weather that is slightly different
The slow rotation of Venus produces a huge heat influx difference from the day to night side of the planet, which produces descending air on the night side and ascending air on the day side. Because the atmosphere is so dense, this means air rises to high elevations on the day side, and descends to surface on the night side. As a result, the night side of the planet is nearly as hot, or even hotter, than the day side. What would be the principal reason for this? A) The air is so dense it has a large heat capacity. B) As the air descends on the night side of the planet, it is heated by adiabatic compression to a very high temperature—a grand scale equivalent of Chinook or Santa Ana winds on Earth. C) The winds must be very, very high, and transport the heat efficiently from one side of the planet to the other. D) None of these makes sense.