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#Question id: 9156

Generalized global air circulation and precipitation patterns are caused by ________.

#Section 2: Evolution

  1. solar radiation that warms moist air masses near the equator, which then cool and release precipitation as they rise, and then, at high altitude, move north or south of the tropics and sink back to the surface as dry air masses

  2. air masses that are dried and heated over continental areas, which then rise, cool aloft, and descend over oceanic areas, followed by a return flow of moist air from ocean to land, delivering high amounts of precipitation to coastal areas

  3. polar, cool, moist, high-pressure air masses from the poles that move along the surface, releasing precipitation along the way to the equator, where they are heated and dried

  4. solar radiation that warms dry air masses at the poles, causing them to sink toward the tropics, gain moisture, and then release it as precipitation

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#Question id: 12675

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Use the incomplete diagram below, illustrating some of the steps involved in eutrophication to answer the following questions
What would be a likely entry for box A?

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#Question id: 12676

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Use the incomplete diagram below, illustrating some of the steps involved in eutrophication to answer the following questions.

What would be a likely entry for box B?

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#Question id: 12677

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Aquatic ecosystems that are most readily damaged by acid are those that lack an important buffer that dissolves into the runoff after a precipitation event. What is this buffer?
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#Question id: 12755

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Which of the following statements best describes why biologists are currently concerned with global warming and the thawing of permafrost in many areas of the tundra biome?
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#Question id: 12756

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

Flycatcher birds that migrate from Africa to Europe feed their nestlings mostly with moth caterpillars. The data presented show the mean dates of egg laying, hatching, and fledging of flycatcher young, and the 1980 and 2000 peak mass of caterpillars.


The most likely cause for the shift in caterpillar peak mass is
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#Question id: 12759

#Section 5: Applied Ecology & Evolution

As climate changes because of global warming, species? ranges in the northern hemisphere may move northward. The trees that are most likely to avoid extinction in such an environment are those that