What are the locations of some of the earliest settlements established by Norse (Viking) explorers in today's Canadian province of Labrador and Newfoundland?
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Some of the earliest Norse settlements were established by explorers from Greenland in the L'Anse aux Meadows (Fr. Jellyfish Cove) on the northern tip of Newfoundland.
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a. True b. False
Streams do most of their erosion, transportation of sediment, and deposition of sediment during ____
A)day-to-day flow movement B)icy winters C)flooding D)rainstorms E)wind storms
The highest temperatures on the earth occur in ____
A) tropical rainforests B) subtropical deserts of the Northern Hemisphere C) subtropical deserts of the Southern Hemisphere D) west coast climates found at mid-latitudes
The wood thrush makes its nest in woodlands in the northern and eastern United States. As patches of woods become smaller, increasing numbers of wood thrush nests have eggs laid in them by the brown-headed cowbird. Cowbirds live in open fields and are
nest parasites; the female cowbird flies up to an unattended nest, quickly lays an egg in it, and leaves the host parents to raise their "adopted" young. Wood thrushes are decreasing in numbers because ________. A) habitat fragmentation makes it easier for cowbird parasitism to occur B) pollution of the open fields has caused a change in cowbird behavior C) cowbirds are an invasive species that is rapidly increasing D) climate change is reducing nest site availability E) overharvesting in the open fields has driven the cowbirds into the woodlands