What Would Occur If All of the Ice on Greenland

question 14

Multiple Choice

What would occur if all of the ice on Greenland and Antarctica melted?

• A) marine regression
• B) marine transgression
• C) glacial transgression
• D) continental transgression
• E) continental regression

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Definitions:

Independent Variable

A variable in an experiment that is manipulated to observe its effect on the dependent variable.

Dependent Variable

A variable in an experimental setup that is observed and expected to change in response to manipulations in the independent variable.

Random Error

Variability in data that arises from unpredictable fluctuations and cannot be attributed to any specific cause, affecting the precision of measurements.

Inferential Statistics

Statistics designed to determine whether results based on sample data are generalizable to a population.