10 Final Exam Questions And 100% Verified Correct Answers 2024

The floor of Death Valley is about two miles lower than the mountain peaks around it. How did this happen? {Ans: The valley floor has dropped by more than two miles relative to the mountains, but erosion has removed the mountain tops and the sediment produced has partially filled the valley, leaving an elevation difference of two miles.}Tsunamis: {Ans: Are like tornadoes; they can be predicted with some accuracy seconds to hours before they strike in most cases, allowing quick warnings to save many lives.}The photograph above shows some rocks in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. From looking at the rocks, and what you know about the park, a likely story is that: {Ans: These rocks were buried deeply and squeezed in a continent-continent collision, and then brought to the surface as overlying rocks were eroded.}Heat is moved around by convection, conduction and radiation (and by lemmings carrying space heaters, if lemmings ever carry space heaters). Which statement is more nearly correct? {Ans: Convection moves heat efficiently through the soft, hot rocks of the Earth's mantle, but is not efficient at moving heat through the space between the Sun and the Earth.}Bigger earthquakes occur less frequently,