The nonpoisonous eastern scarlet snake has colored bands that closely resemble the poisonous coral snake. this selective adaptation provides the eastern scarlet snake with

Which of the following is not a symptom of desertification? a) decrease in salt content of the soil b) lowering of the water table c) reduced surface water d) increased soil erosion e) loss of native vegetation

This is a typical grassland food web. it is also a small picture of an important cycle on earth: the carbon cycle. describe how the carbon gets into this food web. a) bacteria and fungi, the decomposers, recycle carbon from dead organisms. b) carbon is found in the grass and is passed from one level to the next in this food web. eliminate c) all living things give off carbon dioxide as a by-product of respiration and it is released into the atmosphere. d) plants use carbon dioxide as a reactant in photosynthesis, to make usable chemical energy in the form of a sugar.

On a spring day, a middle-latitude city (about 40? north latitude) has a surface (sea-level) temperature of 10 ? c. if vertical soundings reveal a nearly constant environmental lapse rate of 6.5 ? c per kilometer and a temperature at the tropopause of –55 ? c, what is the height of the tropopause?