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Q: How can you protect your community from the effects of climate change?

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Q: Which theory: Continental Drift or Plate Tectonics? 1) Earth's crust is broken into giant slabs: 2) ...

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Q: Which of the follow explains the Earth stays in orbit around the Sun?

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Q: ) What changes might take place in the hydrologic cycle if the earth’s climate becomes (a)hotter or ...

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Q: Environments change through geologic time. When sea level rises or falls, sediments which were depos...

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Q: How does sedimentary rock from the ocean floor sometimes end up high in the mountains?

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Q: The equatorial diameter of Earth is  7928 miles. If a mile equals , 1.609km what is Earth’s diameter...

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