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audie

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How does Venus release its interior heat?
 
  a. Through solar wind
 b. Through active plate tectonics
 c. Through large convective currents of hot magma that rise beneath its crust
  d. Through periodic outgassing of the atmosphere
 e. Through CO2 outgassing

Question 2

Why are there no small craters on the surface of Venus?
 
  a. The thick atmosphere protects the surface from small meteorites.
 b. Old surfaces have been subducted by convection currents.
 c. Venus formed after the heavy bombardment period.
 d. Weathering and erosion removed all craters.
 e. Shield volcanoes prevent small craters to remain on exist on the surface.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

a


audie

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Reply 2 on: Jul 27, 2018
Excellent

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