How does location in the landscape affect soil development at a particular location?
What will be an ideal response?
Mature soils need time to develop, thus they must remain undisturbed. Thinnest soils develop on slopes. Thin soils indicate a change in landscape and a high rate of erosion.
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What prevents stars greater than about 100 times the Sun's mass from existing?
A. The gravitational attraction would overcome the rate of thermal expansion leading to a black hole. B. The gaseous material of the universe is too widely dispersed to allow for the formation of stars of this mass. C. Fusion cannot take place at these higher mass levels. D. The rate of thermal expansion would overcome gravitational attraction leading to explosion.
Name two plates that are growing in size. Name a plate that is shrinking in size
What will be an ideal response?
The UV filtering effect of the ozone layer is beneficial because it ____.
A. allows humans and other forms of life to exist on land B. prevents low energy radiation from reaching the earth's surface C. counteracts global warming D. prevents the formation of photochemical ozone in the stratosphere E. reduces the amount of water vapor in the troposphere
________ limestones have a clastic texture.
A. Oolitic B. Inorganic C. Chemical D. Fossiliferous E. Bioclastic