What is a principle we use to determine the age of a landscape surface?
A. The highest river terrace is probably the youngest in age.
B. A landscape surface is younger than any rock that is deposited on top of the surface.
C. A landscape surface must be older than any rocks onto which it is carved.
D. A surface with a well-developed soil is probably older than a surface with no soil.
Answer: D
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A. industrial solid B. hazardous C. municipal solid D. toxic solid E. electronic
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A. volcanic ash B. sediment from meteoric dust C. pillow basalts D. mid-oceanic ridges E. horizontal layers of sediment
The scientist who espoused the relationship E ~ f was
A. Albert Einstein. B. Isaac Newton. C. Thomas Young. D. all of the above
Suggest one reason why the elevation of the outwash plain in the southeast is higher than the ground that was below the ice, northwest of the terminal moraine.
The question is based on Map T-11, the “Whitewater, Wisconsin” quadrangle (scale 1:62,500; contour interval 20 feet; dotted lines represent 10-foot contours). The irregular high ground of “Kettle Moraine State Forest,” running diagonally from the lower left to the right center of the map, is a terminal moraine left by a Pleistocene ice sheet (42°51'34"N, 88°35'59"W). The region northwest of the terminal moraine was once covered by the ice. The region in the southeast corner of the map is the edge of the glacial outwash plain. What will be an ideal response?