Which of the Following Are Examples of How Physical Geographers

question 50

Multiple Choice

Which of the following are examples of how physical geographers use the scientific method?

• A) collecting water samples from a number of streams and conducting chemical analyses on them to test the hypothesis that water in streams in the region is acidic
• B) mapping the distribution of a particular soil type across the United States
• C) collecting land-cover data from a series of aerial images and examining the change in different types of land cover through time to test the hypothesis that the amount of agricultural area in a particular region has decreased over time.
• D) all of these
• E) a and c only

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The likelihood that a process or event will be completed successfully on the first attempt without the need for repeating it.

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