Where should you move to if you wanted to live an a region with the greatest annual range of temperatures? If you changed your mind and wanted to live in the region with the lowest annual temperature range where should you go?
What are the qualities that create each of these situations?
The largest average annual temperature ranges occur at subpolat, continental locations in North America and Asia. The lowest annual temperature ranges occur in tropical areas. For the former, high latitude and continentality are the dominant influences. For the latter, low latitude and direct insolation are the dominant influences.
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One of Brown's Plan B goals toward shifting to a more environmentally and economically sustainable future is to stabilize ____ growth.
A. poverty B. economic C. hazardous waste D. population E. pollution
The original reactor built in 1942 was just "barely" critical because the natural uranium that was used contained less than 1% of the fissionable isotope U-235 (half-life 713 million years). What if, in 1942, the Earth had been 9 billion years old instead of 4.5 billion years old? Would this reactor have reached critical stage with natural uranium? Why?
A. No. The increased age of the Earth would mean that there would be a much smaller percentage of U-235, thus not enough for the reactor to reach critical stage. B. No. The age of the Earth has nothing to do with the reactor reaching critical stage with U-235. C. No. 1% of the fissionable isotope U-235 is insufficient for the reactor to reach critical stage no matter what the age of the Earth. D. Yes. If the Earth had been twice as old there would have then been twice as much fissionable U-235 present and the reactor would have reached critical stage.
What is one barrier that makes it difficult for scientists to forecast environmental changes?
A) the certainties of ecosystem function that humans ignore B) the diversity of views based on cultural and religious differences C) environmental conflict that leads to ecosystem sustainability D) unpredictable behavior of ecosystems that cause unpredicted environmental changes E) simplicity of ecosystems
In falling, we consider the action force to be the pull of Earth on us. The reaction force is then
A. acceleration of fall. B. nonexistent. C. pull of us on Earth. D. air resistance acting against us. E. none of the above