Give an example of a nonferromagnesian silicate. What will be an ideal response?
Quartz/feldspar/muscovite/clay.
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Which of the following is not true for Silicon Valley in California?
A) It receives 25% of all capital in the United States that is spent on new industries. B) Lenders and investors continue to fund Silicon Valley start-ups even though each start-up has a high chance of failure. C) Focus is on labor-intensive manufacturing for Silicon Valley. D) The availability of capital is more important than the proximity to skilled labor. E) It has a very high-skilled labor force.
A country that is not fully autocratic or democratic is defined as a(n)
A) bureaucracy. B) totalitarian state. C) kleptocracy. D) plutocracy. E) anocracy.
In which of these settings would a river or lake lose water to groundwater?
A. where a river flows across an area where the water table is far beneath the surface B. where the water table adjacent to the river is higher than the river C. where a lake is directly underlain by an impermeable layer D. None of these.
Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California, and Stone Mountain in Georgia are shaped mainly by what mechanical weathering process?
What will be an ideal response?