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Contrast oceanic and continental crust.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Blue whales time their migration through middle latitude and polar oceans to coincide with maximum ________ productivity.
 
  A) dinoflagellate
  B) photosynthetic bacteria
  C) phytoplankton
  D) primary
  E) zooplankton


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

Oceanic crust is thinner, denser, and darker in color than continental crust and is composed of the igneous rock, basalt. Continental crust is thicker, less dense, and lighter in color than oceanic crust, and its average composition is the igneous rock granite.

Answer to Question 2

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