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Science 225 exam 2How do we know climate of the last? - correct answer Ice cores and sedimentary rocks Louis Agassiz - correct answer 1830s-European Alps glaciation hypothesis Glacial erratic - correct answer Boulders of rocks out of place Glacial striations - correct answer Grooves in rocks moving in same direction HMS challenger - correct answer : fossils different in cold and warm areas Milankovitch - correct answer s: change in orbital parameters forces climate change hypothes...

Coastline correct answers The where the land meets the sea Fetch * correct answers The distance over which the wind can blow What does a large fetch cause? correct answers powerful waves What does a small fetch cause? correct answers less powerful waves Prevailing wind correct answers The direction the usual wind comes from What is the prevailing wind in the UK? correct answers In the UK, the prevailing wind is southwesterly, the wind blows, uninterrupted from central America acro...

Examples of sustainable prehistoric civilization(s) include..... - Inca and Zuni Hopi and Zuni maize is...... - Open-pollenated and drought-tolerant The Zuni use small rock dams to slow and diffuse the water onto their agricultural fields. These rock dams work well when...... - Rainfall is more intense The Inca abandoned terraces because..... - The terraces were above the irrigation canal and were no longer needed due to the population crash The Incan terrace soils had high levels of phosp...

SDSU OCEANS 100 EXAM 3 Questions And Answers (Updated And Verified) The coastal region (6 parts) - answer1) coast 2) offshore 3) beach 4) berm 5) notch 6) wave coast - answerland extending inland as far as marine is seen; land adjacent to the beach affected by the ocean offshore - answerextends from breakers to edge of continental shelf beach - answershore and nearshore; very active berm - answerdry area at foot of coastal cliff; sand notch - answercave cut into sea cliff by waves wave-...

AICE Marine Science Unit 2: Ocean Floor and the Coast 100% Correct tectonic processess - Correct Answer ️️ -movements of the lithosphere resulting in volcanoes, hydrothermal vents, earthquakes, tsunamis, mid-ocean ridges and ocean trenches theory of plate tectonics - Correct Answer ️️ -states that the Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into plates (huge rock slabs) that move according to convection currents in the earth's mantle in different directions and at different ra...

Test 2 SCI 225Who is Louis Agassiz? - correct answer came up with glacial erratic; where glaciers deposited rocks differently (1830) Who is Frank Libby? - correct answer came up with half-life which discovered dated wood in glacial material What is HMS challenger? - correct answer SIX scientists who when on a 4-YEAR expedition and discovered 4,700 new species of animals and plants. the found FOSSILS in the wrong climate Who is Cesare Emiliani? - correct answer observed changes in ocean ...

Test 2 SCI 225Who is Louis Agassiz? - correct answer came up with glacial erratic; where glaciers deposited rocks differently (1830) Who is Frank Libby? - correct answer came up with half-life which discovered dated wood in glacial material What is HMS challenger? - correct answer SIX scientists who when on a 4-YEAR expedition and discovered 4,700 new species of animals and plants. the found FOSSILS in the wrong climate Who is Cesare Emiliani? - correct answer observed changes in ocean ...

CSET Subtest 2 Questions and Answers Already Passed Water cycle? Condensation Rain drop and gravity- which direction will it fall? slight right direction what makes grass green or gives it a green color Chlorophyll (chlorophyll absorbs blue light and red light, but reflects the green light) Why is it colder in the central valley in the winter than on the coast in CA? It is warmer at the central coast Why does the ocean not freeze as fast as a lake? Sea water freezes at lower temperatures, t...

What percent of the planet is covered by the ocean - 71% of the planet is covered by the ocean What percent of the oxygen from photosynthesis is produced in the ocean - 70-80% HMS Challenger - First comprehensive survey of the world's oceans (except the Arctic)-> The first major oceanographic expedition What are the four Major Ocean Basins - Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic The differences between the two hemispheres - Northern Hemisphere: most land masses Southern Hemisphere: "Sou...

SDSU Oceanography100 (Exam 3) Questions And Answers 100% Verified What are the parts of a coastal region? - answerCoast, offshore, beach, berm, notch, wave- cut platform What does wave energy do to a coastal cliff over time? - answerWave Energy erodes the cliff, eventually creating sea stacks, caves and arches What do rivers and cliff erosion have to do with sand to the berm? - answerRivers: some carry more sediment to the ocean than longshore currents Cliff Erosion: sediments erode to j...