Power plants can be powered by fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, or nuclear power to produce steam to turn turbines to generate electricity. elaborate on why one might not choose nuclear power over the fossil fuel power plants. a) nuclear power has far less environmental impact than using fossil fuels. b) nuclear power plants create clean, renewable energy that does not pollute. c) radioactive waste requires special treatment and disposal procedures. d) radionucleotides generate much more energy than fossils fuels can produce.

Agroup of students is studying convection currents. they fill two identical balloons with the same amount of helium. one balloon is placed in a freezer and the other in an area with warm air. after 10 minutes, the balloons are released from a height of 1 meter. which of the following do the students most likely observe? a. the balloons both rise. the cold balloon is larger than the warm balloon. b. the balloons rise at the same rate. both balloons are the same size. c. the warm balloon expands and rises. the cold balloon shrinks and sinks. d. the cold balloon expands and rises. the warm balloon shrinks and sinks.

56.16 gregor mendel was the first scientist to use statistics to analyze scientific data. before mendel's experiments, scientists believed that organisms acquired traits from their environment and passed them on to their offspring. after mendel's discoveries were accepted, scientists realized that traits passed to offspring were the result of genes being passed from parents to offspring. this is an example of pls

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu.describe what happens to a carbon-11 atom when it undergoes positron emission.the decay of a carbon-11 atom _1_, and this causes it to emit _2_.options for 1: > changes a neutron into a proton> changes a proton into a neutron> is hit with a neutron> reconfigures its protons and neutronsoptions for 2: > a negatively charged electron-sized particle> a positively charged election-sized particle> two atoms and several neutrons> two neutrons and two protons