Week 6 Pre-Test Question 1 Which of the following statements is false? e. Motor vehicles are second only to industry as a source of air pollution in the U.S. Question 2 It is risky for companies to invest in renewable energy because: d. Subsidies and tax breaks have to be renewed by the government every few years. Question 3 Which three states in the USA have the potential to provide enough usable wind power to supply the entire country’s electricity needs? b. North Dakota‚
Premium Water Energy
Unit 1 : Canadian Connections Population Density (people per km²) – number of people living per unit of an area Formula for Population Density: POPULATION/AREA Largest countries by area and population Top Five Countries by Population: Top Five Countries by Area: 1. China 1. Russia 2. India 2. Canada 3. USA
Premium Precipitation Earth
Geology internal Surface feature: Kiwi point quarry rock face Johnsonville Shops Reference: http://maps.google.co.nz/ Ngauranga gorge Kiwi point quarry Reference: http://maps.google.co.nz/ Exposed quarry rock face from the road in Ngauranga gorge (picture 1). Take note that most of the other photos after this are taken of the rocks behind the trees and below it. Outline of kiwi point quarry Roughly 4m The picture to the left is a picture of the bottom of the rock face in
Premium Plate tectonics
ANALYSIS OF CHOOSING CATERING SERVICES AS AN IDEAL SOLUTION FOR MOST FILIPINO EVENTS A Term Paper Presented to (Name of your professor here) Department of (Name of your school faculty in this subject) City University of Pasay In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for (Subject) Term (No.)‚ school year 2012 -2013 by (Your Name) (Section) Abstract With the Philippines choice of their own events‚ people are becoming ideal of this kind of catering services to have their own alternatives of food
Premium Catering
CGC-1D1 Exam Notes Geography Levels of Geography • Me → personal space • Local → Oshawa • Regional → Durham • Provincial → Ontario • National → Canada • Worldwide → Global Five Focus Areas for Geographers 1) Why things are located where they are. 2)Geographical systems; that shape our world. 3) Interactions between people and the environment within they live. 4) Global Connections; between regions and other countries. 5) Special tools and skills geographers use (like mapping
Free Population Demography Earth
1.)A mastodon was found in Lafayette after being in the ground for how long? A.)30-35 million B.)30-35 billion C.)100 thousand D.)13.7 billion 2.)What is placing geological events in a sequential order as determined from their position in the geological record? A.)geologic time B.)Relative dating C.)Radiocarbon D.)tree-ring dating 3.)Which of the following methods can be used to demonstrate age equivalency of rock units? A.)Lateral tracing B.)Radiometric Dating C.)Guide fossils
Free Charles Darwin Evolution Fossil
Plate Tectonics Designed to meet South Carolina Department of Education 2005 Science Academic Standards Table of Contents Plate Tectonics: The Beginning (slides 3 and 4) Layers of the Earth (slides 5 and 6) Standard 8-3.1 What are Tectonic Plates- movement? (slides 7 and 8) Standard 8-3.6 Tectonic Plate boundaries (slides 9-21) 1. Convergent boundary Ocean-continent (slide 10) Continent-continent (slide 11) Oceanic-oceanic (slide 12) Volcanism (slide 13) 2. Divergent boundary Sea-floor
Premium Plate tectonics
Lines of Latitude are parallel to the equator. True Lines of longitude are parallel to the polar axis. True What is the approximate diameter of Earth at the equator? About 8‚000 miles “Time” can be used to calculate latitude. False Why is it difficult to produce a 2-dimensional map of the earth that will faithfully reproduce to entire earth surface without distortion? There is no way to produce such a map because of the shape of the earth. According to Oceanography‚ Which of the following was the
Premium Earth Latitude Sun
Earth’s surface Four Geologic Eras (Youngest to Oldest) – Cenozoic‚ Mesozoic‚ Paleozoic‚ Precambrian (alphabetical order) Continental Drift Theory -Theory that a long time ago‚ all of Earth’s land masses collided to form one supercontinent called Pangaea; only the continents moved 1. Things fit together like jigsaw puzzles (South America & Africa) 2. Fossils of the same creature found in faraway continents 3. Mountain ranges seemed to be broken by the ocean (eg. Caledonian and
Free Population Demography
MODULE E – Planetary Engineering: Mesozoic Tectonics Lesson 17 – Plate Tectonics 101 Introduction - Plate Tectonics = “Grand Unifying Theory” explaining relationships between processes within Earth From Theory of Continental Drift - Alfred Wegener in 1915 The Theory of Plate Tectonics 1) Earth’s surface consists of many lithospheric plates including crust (continental or oceanic) and immediately underlying mantle‚ cold and rigid 2) These plates are presently moving around on Earth’s surface
Premium Plate tectonics