When Should You Begin Analyzing Your Data

question 56

Multiple Choice

When should you begin analyzing your data?

• A)While you collect it
• B)After you have finished collecting it, but before you start drafting the report
• C)After you have finished collecting and have started drafting your report
• D)After you have a complete draft of your report

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Definitions:

Seafloor Spreading

The process by which two oceanic plates move apart and new magmatic material is added between the plates.

Continental Rifting

The pulling apart of a continent, forming a low, fault-bounded trough (continental rift); may lead to a divergent plate boundary that leads to seafloor spreading and splitting apart a continent.

Continental Shelves

Submerged landforms at the edges of continents, extending from the coastline to a sharp drop-off into the deeper ocean floor.

Shallow Seawater

Areas of the ocean that are not deep, often found near coastlines, characterized by relatively low depths.