What are the maximum and minimum temperature anomalies recorded? What is the range of temperature anomalies in the Vostok record?
Examine Figure 18.2. The Vostok ice core is 3310 m (10,860 ft) long. The full record extends back to 422,000 years before the present. The figure shows CO2 in parts per million (ppm) and temperature anomalies in Celsius degrees.
What will be an ideal response?
Max 3.2C°, min 29.3C°, range 12.5C°
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Which of the following describes what happens to the immense amount of energy that is taken in by hurricanes?
A. It is converted to kinetic energy and lost through radiational cooling at the top. B. It is lost through radiational cooling at the top and it is converted to potential energy. C. It is used in chemical reactions and lost through radiational cooling at the top. D. It is converted to kinetic energy lost through radiational warming at the top.
If hydraulic action and abrasion undercut headlands, structures known as ____________________
may form. When these join, they form a(n) ____________________, which might later collapse to give a(n) ____________________. Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Describe the flow of water from the ground into the water table and to a stream, lake or swamp. What will be an ideal response?
What is an ebb current??
a. The rise in sea level as a tide crest approaches
b. The rise in sea level as a tide trough approaches
c. The fall in sea level as a tide trough approaches
d. The fall in sea level as a tide crest approaches
e. A time of no currents