The product of the breakdown of surface rocks by weathering and erosion is ________.

A. quartz
B. magma
C. sediment
D. lava
E. ash


Answer: C

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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The largest marine animals, such as the baleen whales, eat top consumers, such as seals and large fish

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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You find fossil horseshoe crabs in a 100-million-year-old rock. You go to the coast and see horseshoe crabs living close to the shoreline. What can the principle of uniformitarianism tell you about the environment of deposition of the ancient rock?

What will be an ideal response?

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More than half the ________ in the United States and Canada has/have been lost to urban and agricultural development, but the recent ________ subsidizes landowners to restore or protect remaining areas

A) swamps; Swamp Lands Acts B) wetlands; Wetlands Reserve Program C) biodiversity; Agricultural Biodiversity Trust D) cropland; Cropland Reserve Program E) marshes; Malaria Eradication Act

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