Pressure release occurs when ____
A)the climate is hot and humid
B)ice freezes and creates cracks in rocks
C)rocks heat up and cool down
D)rocks are uplifted and eroded
E)there is faulting and seismic activity
D
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In the accompanying figure, the U.S. spends slightly more on dog food than it would cost to do what?
What will be an ideal response?
The recent volcanic activity in Yellowstone National Park is caused by
A) subduction
B) a divergent plate boundary
C) intraplate volcanism
D) a transform plate boundary
The unique preservation of soft-bodied fauna in the Burgess Shale occurred because ____
a. animals and plants were carried by turbidity flows to aerobic deep-sea conditions b. animals and plants were transported and buried in anaerobic conditions c. bacteria were able to destroy organisms at the burial site d. the organisms were neither compressed nor compacted e. animals with hard parts were deposited immediately above the shale
Sometimes large rocks break up in Earth’s atmosphere and fall as a(n) _______________, spread out around the main impact site
Fill in the blank with correct word.