Only 5% of all earthquakes occur within the:a
Mediterranean-Asiatic belt.
b. circum-Mediterranean belt.
c. interiors of plates and mid-oceanic ridges.
d. passive margins of continents and mid-oceanic ridges.
e. shields of continents and mid-oceanic ridges
C
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Which of the following is NOT true about the world's energy supply?
A) 33 percent of the world's natural gas is produced in Southwest Asia and Russia. B) Approximately 50 percent of the world's coal reserves are found in China. C) Russia and Saudi Arabia provide at least 25 percent of the world's petroleum. D) The United States produced 50 percent of the world's petroleum output. E) 33 percent of the world's natural gas comes from the United States and other developed countries.
The term half life represents the time it takes
A. for the parent atoms to decay into atoms half their original size. B. for the Sun to decrease its size by 50 percent. C. to dissolve half of the atoms in the lattice. D. for half of the parent atoms to decay into daughter atoms.
A knowledge of clouds is important for understanding climate change because ________
What will be an ideal response?
What processes were occurring when this photograph was taken or at some time in the recent past?
A. nuclear fusion, gravitational attraction of material, and movement and rotation of the galaxy B. nuclear fusion and emission of energetic electromagnetic radiation C. nuclear fusion and nucleosynthesis of helium, convection in the interior, and emission of electromagnetic radiation and heat D. ejection of material from a star, at a high rate and in all directions