While observing a beautiful sunset sky in your backyard in Daytona Beach, Florida, you observe altocumulus clouds moving across the sky from southwest to northeast. Using concepts discussed in chapter 8 regarding geostrophic wind and Buys-Ballot’s law, explain how the observed cloud movement allows you to determine that, in the upper levels of the atmosphere, lower pressure is northwest of your location. (It may help to make a sketch of the scenario.)

Consider a population of snowshoe hares in montana. their fur color changes in response to changes in day length. during the long summer days, they have brown fur, but as the days shorten in the fall, their fur turns white in preparation for winter. then as the days get longer in the spring, their fur turns brown again. their fur coloration acts as camouflage from predators. as climate change brings warmer fall temperatures to montana, colder temperatures with snowfall are coming later in the year, and there may be less snowfall overall. as a result, the hares' fur color may be mismatched to the color of their surroundings, making them more visible to predators. which snowshoe hares would have a reproductive advantage in this changing environment? which snowshoe hares would have a reproductive advantage in this changing environment? hares that change color in response to day length, as the current population does hares with a mutation that prevents them from changing color from brown to white hares with a mutation that causes them to change color in response to temperature rather than day length hares with a mutation that prevents them from changing color from white to brown

The impact of a large asteroid comet with earth has been proposed to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. the impact site of this comet is in or near

What did the pattern of earthquakes in the wadati-benioff seafloor zones show scientists? a.) earthquakes occur where the ocean floor reaches its highest temperatures. b.) many earthquakes take place 700 kilometers below the seafloor. c.) slabs of ocean floor return to the mantle in subduction zones. d.) ocean - trenches cause earthquakes.