EAPS 158 Final Exam Review Questions With 100% Correct Answers|33 Pages
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In which direction would longshore drift of sediment occur along this coastline? - ️️Bottom left of the photo
Ionic bonding occurs when ______? Please fill in the blank with the best answer choice. - ️️Atoms lose or gain valence electrons to make positively or negatively charged ions that ...
In which direction would longshore drift of sediment occur
along this coastline? - ✔ ✔ Bottom left of the photo
Ionic bonding occurs when ______? Please fill in the blank
with the best answer choice. - ✔ ✔ Atoms lose or gain
valence electrons to make positively or negatively charged
ions that can then bond
It is trivial to remove large quantities of CO2 from the
atmosphere and geologically sequester it. - ✔ ✔ False
A city that is adjacent to a warm ocean current will have
______ mean yearly temperature than a city at the same
latitude that is adjacent to a cold ocean current. - ✔ ✔
a higher
Geologists think that hotspots form over what type of
feature? - ✔ ✔ a 'plume' of hot material that has risen
,from deep within the Earth, potentially from the boundary
between the Earth's mantle and core
Headlands are areas where land projects into the ocean. Do
these areas concentrate wave energy and erosion due to
wave refraction? - ✔ ✔ Yes
Heating a magma will ________ crystallization and
solidification into a rock. Please fill in the blank with the best
answer choice. - ✔ ✔ Inhibit
Heating a package of air will cause its density to ________. -
✔ ✔ decrease
Heating the Earth's troposphere from below leads to a
convective instability because hot, ________ air forms near
the
A cooling magma begins to grow crystals. We can say that
this magma is ________ the crystallizing mineral. Please fill in
the blank with the best answer choice below. - ✔ ✔
Saturated with respect to
,A river requires _______ to transport large pieces of rock
(i.e., sedimentary clasts) when compared to smaller clasts.
Please fill in the blank with the best answer choice. - ✔ ✔
faster flowing water
A single, cold snowy day indicates that the global mean
temperature is getting colder and a single, hot day indicates
that the global mean temperature is getting hotter. - ✔
✔ false
Which type of seismic wave is most damaging to human
infrastructure? - ✔ ✔ Surface waves
Why are polar regions colder than equatorial regions? - ✔
✔ They receive less solar radiation per unit area than
equatorial regions
Why do ocean currents tend to circulate seawater clockwise
in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the
southern hemisphere? - ✔ ✔ coriolis effect
, Why would artificially creating clouds in the troposphere or
injecting aerosols into the stratosphere potentially work to
cool our planet? - ✔ ✔ Both options would increase the
planetary albedo
Will air near the surface of the Earth tend to rise during
conditions of absolute atmospheric stability? - ✔ ✔ no
About 50% of the solar radiation that enters the Earth's
atmosphere is __________. - ✔ ✔ Absorbed by Earth's
surface
_______ is a rock formed from solidification of magma that
forms during partial melting of the Earth's mantle? Please fill
in the blank with the best answer choice. - ✔ ✔ Basalt
_________ gas(es) absorb infrared radiation emitted from
Earth's surface and help heat the Earth's troposphere from
below. - ✔ ✔ Greenhouse
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