The ________ is an example of an active, continent-continent collision
A) Arabian Peninsula slamming into North Africa under the Red Sea
B) westward movement of the South American plate over the Nazca plate
C) northward movement of India into Eurasia
D) northern movement of Baja California and a sliver of western California toward the Hawaiian Islands
C
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In terms of grams of carbon per square meter per day, the open-ocean environment is about as productive as ________.
A. tropical rain forests B. intensively farmed fields C. prairie land D. deserts E. alpine forests
Explosive eruptions are associated with:
a. low viscosity magma. b. pyroclastics. c. magma of low gas content. d. pahoehoe. e. aa.
The type of strain that occurs depends not only on the kind of stress applied, but also on the:a
amount of pressure and degree of temperature. b. rock type. c. duration of the stress d. A and C e. A and B
Hundreds of millions of years ago, in the formation of fossil fuels, large amounts of
A) organic detritus were trapped underground. B) nitrogen were trapped in rocks during extensive volcanic activity. C) sodium were used to form ancient fossils, seashells, and limestone. D) phosphate gas were added to the atmosphere through erosion and evaporation.