Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions 17th Edition - Solutions by Chapter

Smaller earthquakes that follow the main earthquake.

See Dry climate.

A phenomenon of light by which otherwise identical objects may be differentiated.

A group of interrelated food chains.

The kinetic energy of random molecular motion.

A cloud that normally has its base above 6,000 meters; the base may be lower in winter and at high-latitude locations.

A very large, thick mass of glacial ice flowing outward in all directions from one or more accumulation centers.

A fossil that is associated with a particular span of geologic time.

A measure of the degree of earthquake shaking at a given locale based on the amount of damage.

Depressions created when blocks of ice became lodged in glacial deposits and subsequently melted.

A system for classifying climates devised by Wladimir Köppen that is based on mean monthly and annual values of temperature and precipitation.

The relatively flat submerged zone that extends from the breaker line to the edge of the continental shelf.

Usually a useful metallic mineral that can be mined at a profit. The term is also applied to certain nonmetallic minerals such as fluorite and sulfur.

A lava flow with a smooth-toropey surface.

A feedback mechanism that enhances or drives change.

Metamorphism associated with large-scale mountain-building processes.

The steep, leeward slope of a sand dune; it maintains an angle of about 34 degrees.

The time when the vertical rays of the

A seaward extension of a valley that was cut on the continental shelf during a time when sea level was lower, or a canyon carved into the outer continental shelf, slope, and rise by turbidity currents.

A bench or shelf in the bedrock at sea level, cut by wave erosion.