A polar ice cap climate requires the presence of ice
A) during at least two months of the year.
B) during half of the year.
C) during no more than three-quarters of the year.
D) during the entire year.
Answer: D
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A) Trinidad and Tobago B) Jamaica C) Dominica D) Haiti E) Cuba
Which of the following features are the two important characteristics of High-latitude climates (Polar and sub-Polar)?
A) low temperatures and sub 25 degrees heat in the summer B) extreme seasonal variability and polar snow storms dumping over 17 inches of snow every month C) low average temperatures and extreme seasonal variability. D) few daylight hours both in the summer and winter E) summer rain and winter dry periods
The symmetrical pattern of magnetic polarities about spreading ridges in oceanic crust basalts
indicates that:a. each plate has had an independent set of magnetic reversals. b. basalt retains its magnetic signature for only a few million years. c. new ocean crust is created by volcanism at oceanic ridges and old crust moves laterally away from the ridge. d. the oceanic crust is geologically young. e. magnetic polarity reverses but northern and southern hemispheres do not.
First published in 1962, the book Silent Spring helped to establish
A) the modern civil rights movement. B) the modern environmental movement. C) the Food and Drug Administration. D) the National Wildlife Federation.