The higher the ratio of oxygen-18 to oxygen-16 in the shells of organisms that lived in the sea during the geologic past, the ____ the climate at that time

a. ?colder
b. ?warmer
c. ?wetter
d. ?drier
e. ?more humid


ANSWER: a

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