You have decided on a career as an ecologist. Your work could possibly be which of the following assignments?
a. exploring the earth's crust to locate mineral resources
b. negotiating air quality agreements among different countries
c. studying interactions of wolves and their prey species in Yellowstone National Park
d. studying depletion of large aquifers in the midwestern United States
e. exploring possible wind corridors in the intermountain west for placement of wind farms
C
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The global temperature trend has been generally upward since the last ice age, but the rate of increase has recently
accelerated. a. True b. False
Which of the following is termed a "conservative" location in terms of continental plates?
A) A convergent plate boundary B) A divergent plate boundary C) A transform plate boundary D) An oceanic trench E) An oceanic ridge
Storms can compound problems related to hypoxia by
A) driving saltwater into freshwater ecosystems, killing the fish and causing them to decompose. B) leaving behind debris that inhibits photosynthesis of the remaining living plants and phytoplankton. C) increasing the production of hydrogen sulfide and tannic acid as a by-product of the decomposition process. D) All of these cause hypoxia in the aftermath of a storm.
The drainage pattern that flows of the Bazman volcano in Iran is known as ______________. An image of the Bazman volcano is shown below.
a. dendritic b. trellis c. parallel d. radial