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on: Aug 22, 2018
Why are fisheries heavily impacted by ENSO events?
 A) Upwelling ceases
  B) Nutrient-rich currents are interrupted when the trade winds shift
  C) Low pressure systems create downwelling events rather than the normal upwelling
  D) Rise in sea level effects migration patterns

Question 2

Manganese nodules ____.
 A) are a type of cosmogenous sediment
  B) are almost exclusively found on continental shelves
  C) grow very slowly, at an average rate of 1 to 10 millimeters per million years
  D) are inexpensive to collect and are, therefore, widely exploited


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Reply #1 on: Aug 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

C


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