Convective instability associated with severe thunderstorms and tornadoes can be brought on by:
a. lifting a stable air layer whose surface is humid and whose top is dry.
b. forcing a layer of moist air to descend a mountain range.
c. heating the upper portion of an unsaturated layer of air.
d. all of the above
a
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A)most common along convergent plate margins B)rare along convergent plate margins C)most common along divergent plate margins D)difficult to identify metamorphic rock that forms along divergent plate margins E)coincidental that this association occurs
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A) a commercial market for food created by the growing urban labor force. B) the advent of communism and the emergence of communal farming systems. C) the arrival of crops (potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, chocolate) from the New World. D) the introduction of hybrid seeds and GMOs (genetically modified organisms). E) the large influx of migrants from peripheral to core countries.
Which of the following features was most likely the cause of the earthquake in the Investigation?
A) Oceanic trench B) Collapse of hills along the shoreline C) Faulting along a line of cliffs D) A landslide off Red Mesa E) Earthquakes from within Lava Mountain