Air can hold more water vapor when it is _________.
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Ans: warm
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A small town in New Mexico discovers that a chemical plant outside of town recently learned that one of their underground pipelines had broken without their knowledge and had been leaking a toxic organic compound for over a month
The spill occurred 5m below the surface in a sandstone above a thin shale bed in the local bedrock. The beds are flat lying and this shale crops out 200m from the chemical plant. The town gets is water from deep wells, about 300m deep. What should the town worry about from this spill? A) There is no threat to the city water, but there is a likely health threat when the chemical moves to the surface outcrops of the layers the spill occurred in. B) There is no immediate worry, but in the long term their city water will almost certainly be contaminated. C) There is a threat by the company to move because they do not want to clean up the damage. D) There is an immediate threat of contamination of the city water supply.
In which of the following ways is the study of tree rings and speleothems (cave formations) for understanding past climatic conditions similar?
A) The fossilized form of each is used for understanding past climatic conditions. B) The chronology each can provide only dates back to a maximum of 1,000 years and are, therefore, only useful for relatively recent climatic trends. C) Both are examples of macrofossils and can be used to determine plant and animal assemblages of bygone times. D) Each are composed of organic materials and are therefore used solely for radiocarbon dating. E) Each have growth bands, yielding evidence of the conditions under which they formed and grew.
Which of the following is not a facilitator of mass wasting?
A) Angle of repose B) Water C) Clay D) Permafrost E) Flat landscapes