Sometimes, people say that plants make energy from the sun. However, plants make sugars using sunlight. Stating that plants make energy is

A) a violation of the Law of the Conservation of Momentum.
B) a violation of the First Law of Thermodynamics.
C) a violation of the Law of Inertia.
D) a violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.


B

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Propose a reason why the hills in the northern part of the map are covered with vegetation, while those in the southern part have a much sparser cover.

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Mariculture, or aquaculture, has about the same relationship to commercial fishing as farming does to hunting.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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The abrupt change from thinned, faulted continental crust to oceanic crust occurs at the

A. continental shelf. B. continental rise. C. abyssal plain. D. continental slope.

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