Why do you think the geological time scale is usually not drawn to scale when shown on a single page

of a book? What will be an ideal response?


Since the Phanerozoic includes only 12% of the geologic time scale, most of the page would be taken
up by the Precambrian, making it difficult to draft the details of the Phanerozoic in a legible way.

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A) The Stone Age occurred before the Iron Age. B) John Adams was president of the United States after George Washington. C) A meteorite impacted the Earth sixty-five million years ago. D) Dinosaurs descended from reptiles, which descended from amphibians.

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If upper-level divergence exceeds surface convergence, the air pressure at the center of the low will ____, and the isobars will become ____ tightly packed

A) decrease; less B) decrease; more C) increase; less D) increase; more

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How could carbon dioxide gas cause so many deaths in Cameroon? What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following are needed to convert fructose 1-phosphate to fructose 1,6-bisphosphate?

A) only phosphofructokinase B) only phosphofructokinase and Mg2+ C) phosphofructokinase, ADP, and Mg2+ D) phosphofructokinase, ATP, and Mg2+

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