The Owens Valley quake of 1872 is estimated to have had a magnitude of 7.8 to 8, indicating that big earthquakes can and do happen far away from the coastal zone and the San Andreas Fault.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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A clerk can lift containers a vertical distance of 1 m or can roll them up a 2-m-long ramp to the same elevation. With the ramp, the applied force required is about
A) half as much. B) twice as much. C) the same.
Not surprisingly, the nation with the highest rate of contraceptive use (84%) is ________
A) United States B) New Zealand C) China D) South Africa E) Australia
Judge the following sentence according to the criteria given below: Clown fish are stung by sea anemone but are not seriously harmed BECAUSE they are immune to the toxins in the stinging tentacles
A) The assertion and the reason are both correct, and the reason is valid. B) The assertion and the reason are both correct, but the reason is invalid. C) The assertion is correct, but the reason is incorrect. D) The assertion is incorrect, but the reason is correct. E) Both the assertion and the reason are incorrect.
Earth's physical environment is traditionally divided in the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and the solid Earth
Remembering the scientific method, why do you think that scientists tend to categorize and classify various features, phenomena, and characteristics of the natural world into groups or subdivisions? Also, are there potential pitfalls or problems if we only consider the natural world as individual groups or categories rather than as a whole?