The rate at which the temperature changes inside a rising (or descending) parcel of saturated air is called the ____ rate
A) environmental lapse
B) dry adiabatic lapse
C) moist adiabatic lapse
D) latent heat release
C
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The northern temperate zone has two peaks for phytoplankton productivity in: a. early summer and late summer
b. winter and spring. c. spring and fall. d. winter and summer.
Why is the use of proxy data necessary when studying past climate change?
A) Modern recording instruments are skewed by pollutants in the atmosphere B) Modern data has been biased by religious influence or political ideologies C) Instrumental records only go back a couple of centuries and are more incomplete the older they are D) Geological and atmospheric changes occurring at the time work differently than today
The term barrier island is derived from the fact that
A. they protect the coastline from strong storms. B. they are barriers to animal migration. C. they prevent tidal currents from reaching the shoreline. D. they block lava during volcanic eruptions.
Red winged blackbirds chase away other red wings from the area around their nests. This behavior is called ________ and is an example of ________ competition.
A. commensalism, intraspecific B. commensalism, interspecific C. territoriality, intraspecific D. territoriality, interspecific