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| Which of the following pairs of ions contributes most to the salinity of ocean water? |
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| Which of the following statements about water is false? |
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| Water is denser in the solid state (ice) than in the liquid state. |
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| In the Hydrologic Cycle, water is stored in each of the following reservoirs |
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Oceans
Ice and snow
Groundwater
Lakes |
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| In the Hydrologic Cycle, which of the following is the processes transfers water from one reservoir to another |
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Evaporation
Precipitation Infiltration
Runoff |
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| Beams of sound waves sent from a ship to the seafloor and reflected back to the ship is a method of determining... |
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| What is meant by ocean bathymetry? |
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| It's like topography on land, but occurs below sea level. |
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What is the following illustration showing us? [image] |
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| Circulation of seawater within young lithosphere at a mid-ocean ridge |
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| Where would you expect to find the youngest oceanic lithosphere? |
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| Which of the following statements about sea level is false? |
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| When observed over the deep ocean, distortions in the sea surface are only caused by winds blowing across the surface. |
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| There were times in the geologic past when continental shelves were exposed and rivers flowed across them, carving canyons in the process. This would have most likely occurred when... |
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| Ice ages stored vast amounts of water on the continents as ice and snow. |
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| Which of the following statements about supercontinents is true? |
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| When a supercontinent is assembled, the insulation traps mantle heat below. |
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| Which of the following statements about the continental shelf is false? |
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| Sediment on a typical continental shelf is only a few meters thick. |
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| Where are turbidity currents least active? |
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| Which of the following was not put forth as a viable hypothesis for the origin of ocean waters? |
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| Water captured from a passing planet by Earth's gravity. |
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| The venting of hot hydrothermal fluids on the seafloor as hot springs, also known as black smokers, occur along ____________. |
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