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All Quizzes (1-17) EES Combined For Exam 2 Questions And Answers 2025
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Terms in this set (100) Q&AAll Quizzes (1-17) EES Combined For
Exam 2 Questions And Answers 2025
____ are large-scale food shortages, with widespread starvation, social
disruption, and economic chaos - famines
____ is providing an increasing share of the worlds seafood. Fish and other
foods can be grown in relatively small spaces that are highly productive. -
aquaculture
____ is the average age that a newborn infant can expect to attain in any
given society - life expectancy
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_______ describes how much of a rock consists of open pore spaces,
while _______ describes how well-connected pore spaces allow gases and
liquid to flow through the rock. - Porosity; permeability
________ can occur where undercutting by waves or rivers removes
support from beneath cliff overhangs. - Rock falls
________ create(s) an easy route for oil to follow from the rock to a well. -
Hydrofracking
________ is/are an example of unconventional hydrocarbon sources. - Tar
sands
________ occurs when debris or snow mixes with air to form a chaotic
cloud. - An avalanche
_________ is a construction product formed by heating limestone,
sandstone, and shale in a kiln, driving off CO2, and forming a powdered
material that hardens when mixed with water. - Cement
_________ is a nonmetal evaporite mineral used in the construction of
interior walls in homes and other buildings. - Gypsum
_________ proposed the continental-drift hypothesis, suggesting that the
arrangement of continents on the planet has changed over geologic time. -
Alfred Wegener
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__________ is movement along a fault occurring gradually and relatively
slowly and smoothly. - creep
_____________ are ephemeral stream channels in arid and semiarid
regions. They typically have flat, sandy floors and are dry most of the time.
- Arroyos
______________ are snowball-like lumps of ash formed when ash mixes
with water in the air and then sticks together to form small balls. -
Accretionary lapilli
______________ involves various modifications of a stream channel to
increase the velocity of water flow, the volume of the channel, or both. -
Channelization
________________ are a variety of upstream flood, characterized by a
rapid rise of stream stage. They can occur where surface runoff is rapid
and funneled into confined areas such as canyons. - Flash floods
________________ are dome-shaped structures in rock built up by
microbial colonies - stromatolites
________________ are where magma erupts from a crack in the
lithosphere, rather than from a single pipe or vent. - Fissure eruptions
________________ consists of physical conditions in the atmosphere over
long time scales. - Climate
, Terms in this set (100) Q&A
________________ is commonly used in pencils, where it is mixed with
clay for the pencil "lead." - Graphite
________________ National Park contains an enormous caldera and is
underlain by a "hot spot" that gives rise to geysers and hot springs. -
Yellowstone
_________________ are hurricane-force winds at the top of the
troposphere. These winds follow an undulating path that affects weather
patterns. - Jet streams
_________________ flow for at least one month, and only during wet
seasons when runoff is produced. - Intermittent streams
_________________ involves the movement of concentrated channels of
water. It occurs at a variety of scales. - Streamflow
__________________ involves plowing and planting along lines of roughly
equal elevation. This practice helps slow the water runoff on moderate
slopes. - Contour plowing
__________________ is an environmental issue in which groundwater and
surface water can become polluted with sulfuric acid that is produced when
sulfur-bearing minerals are exposed to conditions at the Earth's surface. -
Acid mine runoff
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