What are crevasses, and where do they form?

What will be an ideal response?


Crevasses are huge cracks in the brittle upper 50 meters of glacial ice. When the ice mass moves over irregular terrain, the brittle part of the ice, the zone of fracture, is subjected to tension, resulting in cracks.

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A) South Atlantic Ocean near Argentine B) Indian Ocean south of Pakistan C) North Atlantic Ocean near North Carolina D) China Sea E) Pacific Ocean near Hawaii

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The financial analysis firm Goldman-Sachs believe that the following countries are expected to dominate global manufacturing during the twenty-first century

A) India and Bangladesh B) Mexico, Argentina and China C) China, Thailand, Vietnam and Mexico D) Brazil, Russia, India, and China E) Russia, Spain, Vietnam and Mexico

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The relationship between the dung beetles and the cattle is a type of

A) mutualism. B) parasitism. C) intraspecific competition. D) interspecific competition.

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Which of the following is not the molecular formula of an alkane?

A) C15H32 B) C19H40 C) C20H42 D) None of them, these are all alkanes.

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