At night, the earth's surface cools by:
a. atmospheric lapse rates
b. radiational cooling.
c. absorption of infrared radiation.
d. All of these choices.
b
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influenced by the Coriolis effect. a. True b. False
The reason almost all hurricanes form in the equatorial regions of the earth is because
A) it has the largest source of warm water. B) the Coriolis force is the strongest. C) vertical wind shear is the greatest. D) there is stronger vorticity near the equator.
Which of the following NSAID drugs is not chiral?
A) aspirin B) ibuprofen C) naproxen D) None, they are all chiral.
The process of one plate sliding beneath another plate is called
A. subduction. B. transformation. C. divergence. D. convergence. E. conduction.