True or False: The lithospheric plates are rigid and strong, in contrast to the underlying weaker asthenosphere

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.


Answer: TRUE

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

You might also like to view...

A high birth rate coupled with a declining death rate resulting from increased food production and improved medical care is characteristic of the ________ stage of the demographic transition model

A) transitional B) revolutionary C) postindustrial D) stabilization E) preindustrial

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

Continental tropical (cT) air masses are associated with summer drought conditions in the southern Great Plains

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

If ethnic Russians in Kazakhstan were to agitate for a part of the country to secede based on concentrations of ethnic Russians, where would the secessionist movement be concentrated?

A. the north central region northwest of the capital Astana B. along the margins of the Caspian Sea C. along the border with the Caucasus countries D. the region around the old capital of Almaty

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

Which of the following will be recognized as foreign by the activating receptors of macrophages?

A) lipopolysaccharides of gram-negative bacteria B) peptidoglycans of gram-positive bacteria C) both a and b D) neither a nor b

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences