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Waves and Tsunamis EOSC 114 Review Questions with Complete Solutions Graded A+ What is the shape of the coast line dependent on? - Answers -many processes of varying time scales Sediment transport and deposition Erosion Uplift and subsidence how is the ocean linked with the atmosphere, and what is the difference between waves and surface currents? - Answers When wind blows over the ocean, it drags on the surface and transfers energy from the atmosphere to the water, thus creating waves a...

Eosc 114 Landslides Exam Questions with Complete Solutions Rated A+ Which would NOT cause a landslide? - Answers Adding the same amount of material to the driving mass and the resisting mass A landslide trigger ________. - Answers can be anthropogenic in origin Which statement is FALSE? A. Quick clays can liquefy only after significant shaking such as during an earthquake. B. The shear strength of sediments is lower than that of rocks. C. The area within and near UBC is in danger of la...

Test Bank Solution Eosc 114- Impacts Already Passed The Biosphere - Answers - a thin layer of life on Earth's surface - composed of ecosystems Stratigraphy - Answers study of layers of rock biostratigraphy - Answers part of stratigraphy that identifies the relative ages of rock layers using fossils Stratigraphy and Biostratigraphy - Answers - for studying the past - biosphere composed of individual pieces that have evolved through time - helps our understanding of the passage of time ...

EOSC 114- Storms, Tornadoes Exam Questions and Answers Graded A+ Storm Learning Goals #1 - Answers 1) Define Sensible heat, latent heat, humidity, air parcel, buoyancy, saturation, and explain how they work together to form TStorms 2) Describe why the fact that cold air holds less water vapour is critical in explaining how TStorms can extract energy from humid air 3) Recognize Tstorms, be able to identify TStorm components, and explain how they evolve 4) List and describe 6 different Tstorm ...

EOSC 114 Module 6 Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed Thunderstorm cloud type - Answers Cumulonimbus clouds - lightning and thunder strong updrafts, cloud base near ground and cloud top near troposphere What ways do thunderstorms typically move - Answers SW --> NE Mammatus clouds - Answers sometimes visible on underside of anvil clouds, beautiful but no clue of intensity of storms Saturation - Answers max amount of water vapour that air can carry at equilibrium - important for det...

Exam Bank Solution Manual for EOSC 114 - Earthquakes Already Passed ____ are primary effects of earthquakes while ____ are secondary effects - Answers ground shaking and surface rupture...land-level change and liquefication first wave recorded on a seismogram - Answers p-wave after a fault ruptures (moves) - Answers elastic deformation concentrates stress at the ends of the rupture as the complex package of seismic energy travels through the Earth, the nature of this package changes. Which ...

EOSC 114 Module 1 Review Questions with Complete Solutions Rated A+ Disaster - Answers Dis - Hard, Bad, Unlucky Aster - Star (chief star/shooting star) Disaster Substantial Event Cause: - Answers 1. Physical damage 2. Injury/death 3. Change in environment Earth Core's Abundance of Elements - Answers 1. Iron 2. Nickel 3. Oxygen Earth Crust's Abundance of Elements - Answers 1. Oxygen 2. Silicon 3. Aluminum Ocean's Abundance of Elements - Answers 1. Oxygen 2. Hydrogen 3. Chlo...

EOSC 114 Module 4 Practice Questions with Complete Solutions Rated A+ Mass Movement/ Mass Wasting - Answers refers to downslope motion of soil/rock materials under influence of gravity Landslide - Answers General term for mass movements - occur when gravity pulling material down slope exceeds slopes material's internal resistance to shear or failure - materials move by sliding or shearing along weak failure plane or number of planes 2 Components of gravity - Answers Gp - part that acts per...

EOSC 114 - Fragile Systems Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update Graded A+ the distance 35,000m is equal to - Answers 3.5 x 10^7 m the speed at which wave energy propagates is called the ____ speed - Answers group consider object A with a mass of 10kg and object B with a mass of 20 kg, both moving at a speed of 1m/sec. Which of the following statements of TRUE? - Answers the kinetic energy of Object B is 2X the kinetic energy of object A most disaster scales are - Answers logarithmic the...

Eosc 114 Volcanoes Review Questions with Complete Solutions Rated 100% What correctly describes volcanism at a continental volcanic arc? - Answers High Viscosity dacitic lavas and explosive volcanism During the 1986 lake Nyos eruption, the most dangerous areas to be in were_____because the gas was______? - Answers In valleys,denser than air what magma type is produced by partial melting of the Earth's mantle? - Answers Mafic Fatalities from volcanic eruptions have increased steadily over...