What are the consequences of rising sea levels?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers may include:1. destruction of coastal wetlands and deltas where rice is grown2. disruption to fisheries3. flooding of low-lying areas4. saltwater intrusion into freshwater aquifers5. displacement of millions of people
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Which of the following temperature changes will most likely coincide with an increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations?
A. warming in the troposphere and warming in the upper atmosphere B. warming in the troposphere and cooling in the upper atmosphere C. cooling in the troposphere and cooling in the upper atmosphere D. cooling in the troposphere and warming in the upper atmosphere
What type of feature is Hatt Hill? Briefly describe how it was formed. Use a red colored pencil or pen and circle several other of these features on the map.
A sinuously curving, narrow ridge of coarse sand and gravel is called an esker. Eskers form along the channel of a meltwater stream that flows beneath a glacier, in an ice tunnel, or between ice walls beneath the glacier. As a glacier retreats, the steep-sided esker is left behind in a pattern roughly parallel to the path of the glacier. What will be an ideal response?
Pelagic oozes are derived from the shells of microscopic marine organisms
a. True
b. FalseIn order for a substance to be called a mineral, it has to have which of the following characteristics? (Check all that apply.)A) SolidB) InorganicC) OrganicD) Naturally occurringE) Definite chemical composition
What will be an ideal response?