Which of the following can be said to be the "death" of a midlatitude cyclone?
A) The presence of strong temperature gradients across fronts
B) Cyclogenesis
C) Occlusion
D) Expansion of the size of the warm sector
E) Occurrence of intense precipitation
Answer: C
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What will be an ideal response?
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isotope, the age of the rock from which it was taken is: a. 400 million years. b. 300 million years. c. 150 million years. d. 800 million years. e. none of the above
Different periods of the geologic time scale are different in length. Why?
A) The geologists who developed the time scale did not care about absolute ages. B) Early geologists made mistakes, but it was easier to retain the terminology in the time scale. C) The time scale was developed ad hoc, as a relative time scale based on rocks and fossil succession with no reference to absolute time when it was developed. D) None of the above