Geography

Pieces of bedrock from Canada are spread across large areas of northwestern Pennsylvania, even though the Great Lakes are between Pennsylvania and Canada. How do geologists explain this
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Both open-pit and strip mines occur at earth's surface. What is the primary structural difference between these two types of mines
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Which mountain range borders Central Asia? A. Ural B. Caucasus C. Syr Dar'ya
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Which geographic object of a geographic information system (GIS) is most likely used to show a street or a river?
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In the condensation sequence, ice condensed at the ice line. The ice line is nearer to Sun than Earth. Group of answer choices True False
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Surface runoff and sediment yield will _____________ with the increased effectiveness of a protective vegetation cover.
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A scientist measured the distance between fixed points on two different plates over the course of a decade and found that the distance did not change. Does this result support the theory of plate tectonics
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The eye wall of a hurricane has all of the following characteristics, except Group of answer choices intense precipitation. thick cloud cover. saturated air. moderate winds.
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Flood basalts poured forth from the Moon about 3.8 to 3.2 billion years ago and created dark areas on the Moon called __________, and are prominent features on the lunar surface today.
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The Miocene was characterized by an initial warming trend, followed by the Group of answer choices retreat of tropical forests. expansion of oceans. expansion of forests. retreat of grasslands.
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The Aral Sea is _____. in Saudi Arabia the largest lake in the world becoming much larger because of the increased melting of glaciers about to disappear because of the diversion rivers feeding the sea an arm of the Pacific Ocean
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The extreme soil erosion in arid and semiarid areas leading to the expansion of deserts, called desertification, is caused by:
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Explain the basis for correlation stratigraphic formations, and show how correlation led to the development of the geologic time scale
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Who controls the government in a Command Economy?
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What determines the structure or type of clouds which form as a result of air being forced to ascend
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The spalling off of slabs of rock along sheet joints (similar to peeling layers from an onion) is called ______.
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Rock through which ground water cannot run or flow through is a(n) ________. A) phreatic layer B) aquifer C) aquiclude D) vadose layer
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A water type having both high salinity and warm temperature but dense enough to be found at about 1000 m in the central North Atlantic has been formed _______.
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A sinkhole that results from the collapse of the roof of a subsurface cavern is called a ______________. Group of answer choices travertine dripstone collapse doline tufa geyser
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Unconsolidated, water-saturated soils or sediments provide good foundation materials for buildings and other structures. Group of answer choices True False
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A(n) is a type of fracture that is small, has no significant offset, and promotes weathering by allowing water and plant roots to penetrate the rock;
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The contact between Precambrian rocks and the Cambrian Deadwood Formation is a strongly curved line on this map because of many small valleys cut into the contact that dip consistently to the east. What is the nature of this contact
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Of the water in Planet Earth, (a) _____ is fresh water and of this only (b)_____ corresponds to groundwater.
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The age of the earth is approximately: Select one: a. 2.5 billion years b. 3.5 billion years c. 5.5 billion years d. 4.5 billion years g
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