Why do hot spots form a trail of extinct volcanoes over time?
A) The mantle plume moves with Earth's rotation.
B) The tectonic plates that contain the volcanoes move over time.
C) The heat and debris from the eruptions are enough to form nearby islands.
D) The mantle-plume hypothesis assumes the hot plumes are wedge-shaped.
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
In the anticyclone pictured here, the winds at area A are from the ________ bringing ________ temperatures
A) north; warmer
B) south; warmer
C) north; cooler
D) south; cooler
Which of the following countries has suffered in the twenty-first century from ethnic cleansing?
A) Kazakhstan B) Uzbekistan C) Tajikistan D) Kyrgyzstan E) Turkmenistan
The Great Lakes and the Corn Belt region became known as the "Rust Belt" because
A) Decades after the invention of the automobile, large numbers of auto scrapyards and recyclers appeared around manufacturing cities so the iron and steel could eventually be reused. B) The large number of underground iron deposits that filtered into emerging underground springs gave the rocks of the region a yellowish-orange "rusty" tinge as it oxidized. C) The region used to be the hub of the rail system developed during WWII to move goods across America, but as shipping goods by truck and airplane became more prevalent, the system decayed leaving an iron skeleton of its former glory. D) The decay of the region's cities from deindustrialization, as steel mills and auto manufacturers moved to other parts of the world, and the resulting loss of population, increase in crime and chronic unemployment.
Temperature advection does not occur when the winds do not cross the isotherms
a. True b. False