Deserts are commonly cool at night because desert soils have little vegetation or moisture to help store the heat.

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


True

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Radium-226 is a common isotope on Earth, but has a half-life of about 1600 years. Given that Earth is some 5 billion years old, why is there any radium at all?

A. Radium-226 and Radium-218 undergo a series of transmutation reactions of alpha and beta decay to repeatedly become one another approximately every 1600 years. B. Radium-226 is a "daughter" isotope and the result of the radioactive decay of uranium. C. Radium-226 is one of several self-transmutating isotopes of the elements of the periodic table and is able to replenish itself so that it is never depleted. D. Radium-226 and Astatine-218 are converted back and forth via transmutation to one another at each of their respective half-life cycles.

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Which of the following drainage patterns forms on highly fractured bedrock?

A. trellis B. radial C. dendritic D. rectangular

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The latitude at which the noon sun is directly overhead is known as the sun's ____

a. declination. b. insolation. c. perihelion. d. analemma.

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In the early 1900s the German meteorologist ________ made a strong case for continental drift.

A. Diane Carlson B. Alfred Wegener C. Charles Plummer D. Ben Franklin E. George Bush

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