How will joints in rock aid chemical weathering?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Joints provide pathways for water migration, allowing weathering to begin before the rock is exposed at the surface.

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What will be an ideal response?

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Without the atmosphere, there would be no refraction or scattering, and the Sun would rise later and set earlier than it now does

a. True b. False

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Ethanol production has resulted in

A. decreased water usage. B. increased transportation emissions. C. decreased the number of malnourished people. D. decreased prices for corn-based food products. E. increased prices for corn-based food products.

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Shield volcanoes are built up primarily by relatively



A) nonexplosive outpourings of lava.
B) explosive ash-forming eruptions.
C) high-viscosity dome-forming eruptions.

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