Compare/contrast the features of the midlatitude cyclone with the tropical cyclone
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Midlatitude cyclone: Energy from jet stream, west-to-east, fronts, conveyor belt, low pressure center, strengthens with height. Tropical cyclone: Energy from warm seawater, east-to-west, not fronts, maritime Tropical air, weakens with height.
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A. 95 billion B. 95 million C. 9.5 billion D. 950 billion
Which of these hockey pucks has zero acceleration?
A. One in mechanical equilibrium. B. One at rest. C. One moving at constant velocity. D. all of the above
Earth's liquid and solid layers were discovered by studying the propagation of seismic waves through Earth's interior. P-waves ________; S-waves ________
A) compress and expand the rock as they move through it; vibrate the particles of their medium up and down and side-to-side B) can travel through solid granite, magma, water, or air; can travel only through solids—not in fluids C) are the fastest of all seismic waves and the first to register on a seismograph; are the second to register on a seismograph D) all of the above