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Science Olympiad - Dynamic Planet Latest Update Graded A+ USGS topographic maps detailed record of a land area, giving geographic positions and elevations for both natural and man-made features. They show the shape of the land the mountains, valleys, and plains by means of brown contour lines stream order The concept that describes the hierarchy of stream types (see image) Perennial streams Water flows in the stream at least 90 percent of the time in a well defined channel. Int...

Name the three major kinds of rocks - Sedimentary- deposition of material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water Metamorphic- transformation of existing rock through heat or pressure Igneous- cooling and solidification of magma and lava Has the African plate been stationary or mobile and have other plates moved towards or away from it? - Relatively stationary while other plates have moved away from it causing no collisions ad therefore no mountain chains formed. How was the A...

Fjord - ANSWERSA long narrow inlet with steep cliffs created by glacial erosion (commonly found in Washington State) The Alps were formed... - ANSWERS...by the collision of the African and Eurasian continents (the alps are not made of volcanic rock) Three Main Types of Rocks - ANSWERSIgneous - Obsidian, Basalt, Granite (made from lava/ volcanic activity) Metamorphic - Slate, Gneiss, Phyllis (made under extreme pressure and temperature) Sedimentary - Limestone, Shale, Sandstone (made...

ENVR 101 final exam Questions and answers, 100% Accurate. Verified. environmentally friendly - -designed not to harm the areas in which we live natural resources - -valuable substances such as wood and oil that exist in a country's land and sea climate change - -the way the world's weather is being altered so that it is becoming warmer natural disasters - -these can cause a lot of damage or kill a lot of people, for example, floods or earthquakes pollution - -the process of da...

Landscapes - Earth Science Landscape - correct answer The shape of land surfaces Landscape type #1 - correct answer Mountains → High elevation, NOT flat, deformed/metamorphic/igneous rocks Landscape type #2 - correct answer Plains → low elevation + flat rocks (usually sedimentary) Landscape type #3 - correct answer Plateaus → high elevation + flat rocks inside Arid climate (DRY) topography - correct answer angular/stair-step Humid climate - correct answer more soil&vegetation- more r...

PHSC 210 Quiz 5 Liberty University Complete Answers QUESTION 1 A stream that flows in a desert and gets smaller and smaller as its water is absorbed by sand and gravel is called a(n) ______ stream. meandering braided disappearing misfit 2 points QUESTION 2 A hillside in Alabama with bent tree trunks and cock-eyed tomb stones and fence posts is probably experiencing soil creep solifluction slump mudflow talus creep 2 points QUESTION 3 Perhaps the world’s greatest modern natural disaster (in ter...

Ablation The loss of ice/snow from a galcier system through melting, runoff etc. Abstraction Removal of water from the ground, permanently or temporarily 00:13 01:24 Active layer The part of permafrost which melts during summer months Absolute humidity Measure of water vapour in the air, regardless of temperature, in grams of moisture per m3 of air Adiabatic cooling Cooling of air as it rises Adiabatic expansion Decreasing air pressure as warm air...

AMU ERSC181 B001Week 6 Exam ERSC 181 Latest Fall 2022 (answered) 4 / 4 points Transpiration is the process where ________. Question options: er turns into vapor. rs the food chain. ase water vapor. orb water vapor Limestone can be a very jointed type of rock. Which drainage pattern would you expect to see as a result? Question options: ar A trellis drainage pattern would be commonly associated with ________. Question options: k. us areas. have been faulted. An unconfined aquifer...

This summary cover the following topics for Grade 12 Geomorphology: Drainage Systems in South Africa • important concepts: drainage basin, catchment area, river system, watershed, tributary, river mouth, source, confluence, water table, surface run-off and groundwater • types of rivers: permanent, periodic, episodic and exotic • drainage patterns: dendritic, trellis, rectangular, radial, centripetal, deranged and parallel • drainage density • stream order • use of topographi...

Chapter 03 - Life in Water Multiple Choice Questions 1. Which of the following vertical aquatic zones is correctly ordered from top to bottom? A. bathypelagic, mesopelagic, epipelagic, abyssal, hadal B. epipelagic, mesopelagic, bathypelagic, abyssal, hadal C. abyssal, bathypelagic, hadal, mesopelagic, epipelagic D. epipelagic, bathypelagic, mesopelagic, hadal, abyssal E. mesopelagic, abyssal, epipelagic, hadal, bathypelagic Blooms: Remember Learning Objective: 03-02 The biology of aquatic...