____________ ____________ are formed as a result of two oceanic plates converging. The Japanese Islands were

formed in this way. Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).


Island arcs
Volcanic islands

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This globe, from the opening two-page spread of the Climate chapter, shows average annual temperature (warmest is red, coolest is purple). What is the main factor causing Europe to be colder than Africa?



A) Trade winds
B) Westerlies
C) Amount of insolation
D) Ocean currents

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A division on the geologic time scale represents ____

a. the passage of 500,000 years. b. the passage of 250 million years c. an increase in reptilian poopulation by 100,000 d. an increase in population of all living organisms by one million e. a distinctive event in the rock record

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Paulo Freire termed “the building not of head-nodding agreement, but of critical consciousness in dialogue with the world,” as…

a. openness. b. conscientization. c. the behaviorist approach. d. cultivation of knowledge.

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A condition that causes a system to change dramatically is a ____

a. feedback b. threshold c. model d. subsystem

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