If Earth's remaining glaciers melt, how would the global sea level change?
A) hardly at all; most of the water would be absorbed by porous land and by increasing size of freshwater lakes and rivers
B) the sea level would rise about 8 m
C) the sea level would rise about 80 m
D) the sea level would rise about 120 m
Question 2
An event which may have caused the oceans to become shallower was
A) the rifting apart of Pangea in the Mesozoic.
B) the repeated volcanic eruptions of the Cenozoic.
C) the earthquakes of the Paleozoic.
D) the glaciation of the Mesozoic.