An increase in the amount of high altitude, thin clouds would
A) cool the planet in a process called cloud-albedo forcing.
B) warm the planet in a process called cloud-greenhouse forcing.
C) have no effect on the planet's temperature because insolation is constant.
B
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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The question is based on the lower right (southeast) corner of the “Greasewood Spring, Arizona,” quadrangle (Maps T-18 and T-19 shown in color in the back of the Lab Manual). What will be an ideal response?
If you observe a nonconformity, you would infer that the region had experienced ________
A) intrusion of igneous rocks into a depositional setting, forcing the sedimentary layers upward and possibly deforming them, followed by subsidence of the remaining sedimentary layers and renewed deposition B) deposition in shallow water, uplift or lowering of sea level enough to expose the rocks to erosion and non-deposition for a period of time, and subsequent resubmergence of the remaining sedimentary units where they experience new deposition C) deposition of sedimentary layers on crystalline igneous or metamorphic rocks that are exposed at the surface of the earth D) uplift and tilting of sedimentary units that exposes them to erosion over a period of time with subsequent renewed deposition
After three half-lives, one-ninth of an original radioactive parent isotope remains, and eight-ninths has decayed into the daughter isotope.
a. true b. false