What is one of the newest techniques employed to measure tides?

a. simple drogues
b. pressure-sensing transducers
c. drift bottles
d. satellites to measure Earth's magnetic field
e. acoustic Doppler profilers


d

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____________ is the ability of an object to float in a fluid by displacing a volume of that fluid equal in weight to the

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