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The image illustrates what type of boundary?DivergentConvergentTransformEmergent - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The image illustrates what type of boundary?DivergentConvergentTransformEmergent
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Scientists rejected the Theory of Continental Drift at first becausethey couldn't understand his theoryPangaea happened so long agoAlfred Wegener was a meteorologistconvection currents were unknown
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The best example to demonstrate convection currents is a(n)alka seltzer tablet in waterwind blowinglava lampelectric oven
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What takes place because of sea-floor spreading?Crust is recycled.Crust is created.The ocean is evaporated.The sea floor remains unchanged.
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At which boundary is crust DESTROYED (when melting in the mantle!)?
Continent- continent Convergent
Transform boundaries
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All convergent boundaries
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The "cause" for something to happen is theresponseeffectstimulushomeostasis
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The "effect" of a given stimulus is the...responsestimuluscauseresult
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What type of feedback loop is shown?PositiveNeutralNegative
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The four spheres of Earth...are all connectedhave nothing to do with one anotherexist on Venus and Marsdon't affect human life
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.When living things breathe, they interact with which of Earth's spheres?GeosphereHydrosphereAtmosphereBiosphere
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.When carbon dioxide dissolves from the air into the ocean- the interaction is between...The atmosphere and geosphereThe atmosphere and hydrosphereThe atmosphere and biosphereThe atmosphere and atmosphere
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.When a plants takes carbon dioxide from the air which two spheres are interacting?Biosphere and atmosphereGeosphere and atmosphereHydrosphere and atmosphereAtmosphere and atmosphere
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Higher temperatures cause more evaporation which leads to more water vapor in the atmosphere. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas so will trap more heat so the atmosphere will warm more.
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As carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rise, the temperature of the Earth rises. As the Earth warms the rate of photosynthesis in plants increases, more carbon dioxide is therefore removed from the atmosphere by plants, reducing the greenhouse effect and reducing global temperatures.
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- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Negative Feedback Loops:amplify processesprevent small changes from getting largerare initiated during childbirthare found only in plants
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.When plants draw nutrients from the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres?The atmosphere and the geosphereThe geosphere and the hydrosphereThe hydrosphere and atmosphereThe biosphere and the geosphere
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A thermostat in a central heating system can determine the temperature of your living room. It switches the air conditioner on when the temperature increases to a predetermined level and shuts it off when it cools to another level. The room temperature remains within a comfortable level regardless of the temperature outside
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As the Earth warms, upper layers of permafrost melt, producing waterlogged soil above frozen ground. Methane gas is released into the environment. The greenhouse effect is enhanced. The Earth warms, melting more permafrost.
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Plants use sunlight to go through photosynthesis. Animals take in oxygen through this process and consume glucose. As a byproduct of cellular respiration, carbon dioxide and water are given off from the animal. The carbon dioxide and water are then used by plants to go through photosynthesis.
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