Which of the colors of the primary rainbow is refracted at the greatest angle? Explain your answer

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Red is refracted at a 42 degree angle and comes from raindrops located higher above the surface. The red light appears at the upper (or outer) portion of the bow.

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Mount Everest’s summit is 8850 m (29,035 ft) above sea level. What is the barometric pressure there, according to the standard atmosphere?

Using the graph you prepared in Figure 10.2, list the approximate answers to the following, assuming standard atmosphere conditions. The first answer is provided for you in brackets.

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What is an environmental nonproblem?

a. Idealist conceptions of the environment that ignores problems b. Industrial narratives that spin and suppress the evidence of environmental problems c. Scientific conflict over environmental problems that arises over disputed evidence d. A lie

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Organisms with clumped distributions are fairly rare.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Molecular transport that acts upon momentum is called ________.

A. convective B. viscous C. diffusive D. conductive

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