In the United States, the most important reason for the increased capacity to analyze weather has been
A) increased government funding for research.
B) improvement in technology.
C) better knowledge of meteorology.
D) more complete information on surface weather conditions.
Answer: B
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Find the word “South” in the label for the “South Sawyer Glacier” (in the east central part of the map). Assume that the rate of movement of this glacier is 9 inches (22 cm) per day (a hypothetical rate). How long would it take the ice to move from the location marked by the “S” in the word “South” to the water of the Tracy Arm? It may be easiest if you determine the distance in inches or centimeters, rather than in feet, miles, or kilometers.
The following questions are based on Map T-14, the “Sumdum (D-4), Alaska” quadrangle (scale 1:63,360; contour interval 100 feet). The map shows two glaciers entering the “Tracy Arm.” The Tracy Arm is a fjord just south of Juneau, Alaska (see Exercise 49 for a brief discussion of fjords). The “Sawyer Glacier” enters the Tracy Arm from the north and the “South Sawyer Glacier” enters the Tracy Arm from the southeast (57°52'27"N, 133°10'33"W).
(a) 
(b) Time for ice to move to the Tracy Arm: _____________ years
A tsunami breached the 40-foot seawall at the Daiichi nuclear power plant in Honshu, Japan, in 2011. What was the disastrous result?
A. a leak of radioactivity from the power plant B. a nuclear explosion C. a tidal wave that washed away buildings along the shore D. thermal pollution
An abrupt change in the beach slope caused by the cutting action of waves at normal high tide is known as a beach ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Prehistoric earthquakes may be interpreted using faulted pond sediments. The amount of offset of sediment layers from one earthquake is proportional to the ________.
A. isostatic anomaly B. earthquake magnitude C. amount of time since the last major earthquake D. amount of radioactive material in the sediment