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Author Question: Scrub vegetation refers to A) woody plants with small, leathery evergreen leaves. B) drought ... (Read 90 times)

kshipps

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on: Jul 13, 2018
Scrub vegetation refers to
 
  A) woody plants with small, leathery evergreen leaves.
  B) drought resistant plants.
  C) a plant that survives seasonally unfavorable conditions underground.
  D) low shrubs and grasses with some adaptations to semiarid conditions.
  E) overstory (emergent layer) trees.

Question 2

Which of the following is correct regarding the moment magnitude scalea scale which quantifies the amount of energy released by an earthquake?
 
  A) It is the same as the Mercalli scale.
  B) It considers the amount of fault slippage produced by the earthquake, the size of the surface (and subsurface) area that ruptured, and the nature of the materials that faulted.
  C) It is a scale of magnitude based on arithmetical progressions (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.).
  D) It is the same as the Richter scale.
  E) It is a closed scale that begins at 0.0 and ends at 10.0.


javimendoza7

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Reply #1 on: Jul 13, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

B


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