Rocks formed at high temperatures and under high pressure deep within the Earth and pushed upward by tectonic force are stable in their new environment.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
False
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Weather reports of wind express only the horizontal motion of the air. The vertical component of the air motion is usually:
A) about the same. B) very much slower. C) much faster. D) only slightly slower. E) No general statement can be made.
The angle of the beach slope is controlled by ________
A) tidal range B) longshore drift C) the chemical composition of sandy D) the size of the sediments E) chance
A visible snowline across the surface of a glacier is called
A) an equilibrium line. B) a medial moraine. C) a firn line D) the ice line.
Increasing temperatures of earth’s surface and lower atmosphere provide strong evidence that global
warming is happening right now. This evidence includes all of the following except:a. Average earth temperature from land areas and global shipping lanes indicate that average Earth temperature increased 0.74 degrees Celsius during the 20th century. b. Half of the increase in Earth’s average temperature from the 20th century increased during its last 30 years. c. Nine of the ten years during the first decade of the 21st Century were in the top 10 warmest years of a 160-year-long record. d. Earth’s present average temperature is the warmest it has been since 1400, which is as far back as we can go with certainty by direct and indirect evidence. e. During the recent increase in Earth’s temperature the greatest amount of warming occurred during the day near the equator.