An Iceberg

question 50

Multiple Choice

An iceberg:

• A) is a piece of a glacier that has broken off.
• B) is a floating platform of ice where a glacier or ice sheet meet the ocean.
• C) forms out of ocean water.
• D) is made up snow falling on water.

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Definitions:

Lightning Strikes

Electrical discharges caused by imbalances between storm clouds and the ground, or within the clouds themselves.

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming that these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.

Probability

The measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, quantified as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

Manic-depressive Illness

Also known as bipolar disorder, it is a mental health condition characterized by extreme mood swings, including emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression).