A perennial stream or perennial river is a stream or river (channel) that has continuous flow in parts of its stream bed all year round during years of normal rainfall. `Perennial` streams are contrasted with `intermittent` streams which normally cease flowing for weeks or months each year, and with `ephemeral` channels that flow only for hours or days following rainfall.
Which of the following is the correct order of stream type from the least amount of time flowing to the most amount of time flowing over the course of a year?
Ephemeral, intermittent, perennial. | |
Perennial, ephemeral, intermittent. | |
Ephemeral, perennial, intermittent. | |
Perennial, intermittent, ephemeral. |
Alaska is a state in the United States, situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with the international boundary with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 4th least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska`s 731,449 residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area.
Alaska`s economy is dominated by the oil, natural gas, and fishing industries; it has these resources in abundance.
According to this paragraph, which of these is false:
Alaska is a state in the United States. | |
Alaska is the smallest state in the United States by population. | |
Alaska has an international boundary with Canada. | |
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. |
In 2011, the Ohio Turnpike raised its limit to 70 and recorded its lowest traffic fatality rate ever that year. The higher speed limit attracts travelers to use the safer, limited-access, divided highways of the interstates from more traditional roads. That makes both types of roads safer.
Why does increasing the speed limit on interstates make traditional roads safer?
After this change there are more police patrolling traditional roads | |
Drivers attracted by the high speed limits of the interstates are reckless and getting them off the traditional roads makes those roads safer | |
More travelers choose to use interstates which reduces the number of cars on traditional roads | |
After this change there are less police patrolling traditional roads |