Describe another setting in North America where an international border potentially complicates an important environmental issue

What will be an ideal response?


Fisheries along the coastlines; Arctic Plain (oil/caribou); oil drilling in Gulf of Mexico; flooding of Red River; Great Lakes water quality, etc.

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

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Longitudinal dunes are _____

a. oriented parallel to the average wind direction b. a type of barchan dune c. a type of star dune d. crescent-shaped dunes with arms that point upwind e. only formed out of ice and snow

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

Which of the following is the standard unit of ocean depth?

A) Mile B) Fathom C) Foot D) Meter E) League

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

How much of Steelhead Drive (and the houses along it) were covered by the landslide?

The question is based on Figure 38-8, a digital elevation model showing the 2014 Oso, Washington, landslide along the North Fork Stillaguamish River, and color Map T-26b in the back of the Lab Manual, showing a portion of the “Mount Higgins, Washington” quadrangle (scale 1:24,000; contour interval 40 feet); this same topographic map is reproduced in black-and-white as Figure 38-14. What will be an ideal response?

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences

Karst landscapes are noteworthy because ________ are usually absent

A) chemical weathering processes B) caverns C) surface streams D) hills of any size E) limestone and dolomite

Environmental & Atmospheric Sciences