The hydrologic cycle
A) refers to the highly localized transfer of water from plants and soils to the atmosphere and back.
B) focuses on surface runoff's contribution to oceanic currents.
C) is limited to freshwater circulation in the hydrosphere.
D) involves the continuous movement of water in all its states throughout the lower atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere.
E) is the groundwater component of the global water cycle.
D
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Rapid population decline is least likely to result in ____.
A. less government revenues with fewer workers B. less new business formation C. increased pensions and lowered retirement age D. less likelihood for new technology development E. increasing public deficits
If a small amount of water is aspirated into the trachea during a submersion event:
A) the victim asphyxiates, becomes profoundly acidotic, and dies. B) laryngospasm occurs and temporarily protects the lower airway. C) permanent laryngeal spasm occurs and requires cricothyrotomy. D) resulting hypoxemia causes the body to shift to aerobic metabolism.
Most radiosondes
A) are recovered and recycled. B) land within a few hundred meters of their launching sites. C) take nearly an hour to descend. D) are launched into the stratosphere.
The meridian opposite of Earth's prime meridian (0° longitude) is called
A) secondary meridian. B) the International Date Line. C) Tropic of Cancer. D) the equator. E) the anti-meridian.