What is the difference between longshore currents and rip tide currents?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Longshore currents move parallel to shore, whereas rip currents move water away from the coast.
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A. is a passive continental margin B. is a passive continental margin and has a relatively wide continental shelf C. has a relatively wide continental shelf D. is marked by a deep ocean trench E. is an active continental margin
Using the hydrologic equation, what would you do to a river if you wanted to prevent flooding?
What will be an ideal response?
Where is the best place to develop geothermal energy in terms of world regions? What will be an ideal response?
Which of these types of mass wasting is considered to be slow?
a. solifluction b. slump c. earthflow d. mudslide e. avalanche