GEOGRAPHY HIGH SCHOOL

What do most scientists think caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs and other organisms at the end of the Cretaceous Period?Volcanic eruptions covered large areas with lava.
The dinosaurs ate too many other organisms and then starved.
An object from space struck Earth.
An ice age covered most of Earth with ice.

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Answer 1
Answer: An object from apspace struck earth

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Select all of the answers that apply.Which of the following statements are true?

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-Batholiths are sills that push up into lens-shaped intrusions.
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The statements that are true are:

Volcanoes can form mountains and islands.
Volcanoes can form plateaus and lava domes.
Geysers and hot springs occur due to hot, volcanic material inside the earth

When volcanoes erupt, they can form new landmasses such as mountains, islands, plateaus, and lava domes. Geysers and hot springs also occur due to the hot magma underneath its surface. Batholiths are not sills, which is a different type of intrusion.

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•geysers in Hot Springs occur due to hot, volcanic material inside the earth

• volcanoes can form mountains and islands

• volcanoes can form plateaus in lava domes

Tom is an Inuit living in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. Which climate is he likely to experience? tropical humid semiarid humid continental tundra

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Answer:

Tundra climate

Explanation:

  • The Nunavut is the largest territory of Canada and has a total land area of about 2,038,722 km square and the territory includes the main part of the arctic archipelago and all the island of the Hudson ad the James bay.
  • As the areas are covered by the ice caps and they remain frozen through the most time of the year.
He is most likely to experience a tundra because it is quite cold in Nunavut

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