Soil moisture tightly bound to each soil particle and unavailable for plant use is termed ________ water
A) capillary
B) gravitational
C) available
D) hygroscopic
D
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The accompanying graph shows the number of Atlantic hurricanes since the 1880's. Based on when most global warming has occurred, one would conclude
A. all hurricanes have increased in frequency. B. no trends are apparent from this graph. C. short duration hurricanes have increased in frequency. D. moderate duration hurricanes have increased in frequency.
Someone has offered you shares in a sure-shot wildcat oil-drilling venture in the Sierra Nevada of
California. Which of the following is the most important reason you should reject his shady offer? a. The Sierra Nevada is composed of granitic and metamorphic rocks. b. There is no prior oil or gas production in California. c. Drilling is prohibited in the entire Sierra Nevada because it is all national forest. d. Oil and gas production only occurs at present day plate boundaries. e. Movement along the San Andreas fault has caused all existing oil to leak to the surface.
A plot of mean monthly temperatures and precipitation summarizing the climate at any point on Earth is called a(n) ____
a. hydrologic cycle b. moisture index c. isohyet d. water budget e. climograph
Hindu burial rites mandate that bodies be cremated on funeral pyres, preferably on the Ganges River in Varanasi. This further exacerbates the already critical problem of
A. deforestation. B. the disposal of the ashes. C. relations with Muslims who have completely different burial rites. D. finding sacred rivers unpolluted by factories.