Clouds take on three distinctive shapes. What are they, and what do they look like?
The three basic shapes are: cirrus, cumulus, and stratus. Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy, stringy, white clouds that move across the sky like feathers. Cumulus clouds are massive piles of clouds, rounded in appearance, usually with a flat base. Stratus clouds have a horizontal sheetlike appearance, lying in layers with fairly uniform thickness.
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America's largest estuary, the ____________________, has greatly reduced shellfish and fisheries harvests due to a high population, nonpoint source pollution, and the resulting eutrophication.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Water polluted by a farmer's poor irrigation control of fertilized lands is an example of
A) nonpoint source pollution. B) point source pollution. C) biochemical oxygen demand pollution. D) municipal sewage pollution. E) industrial pollution.
Columbus used the midlatitude westerlies to sail to the New World
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Pebbles can be moved by ________ in a process known as ________
A) deflation; saltation B) deflation; surface creep C) saltating particles; deflation D) saltating particles; surface creep