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?
Perennial, ephemeral, intermittent. | |
Ephemeral, perennial, intermittent. | |
Ephemeral, intermittent, perennial. | |
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 the smallest state in the United States by population. | |
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. | |
Alaska has an international boundary with Canada. | |
Alaska is a state in the United States. |
Conan of Aquilonia is a collection of four linked fantasy short stories written by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter featuring Robert E. Howard`s seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian.
The stories were originally published in Fantastic for August 1972, July 1973, July 1974, and February, 1975. The collected stories were intended for book publication by Lancer Books, but this edition never appeared due to Lancer`s bankruptcy.
The first book edition was issued in paperback by Ace Books in May 1977 and the first British edition was published by Sphere Books in October 1978.
Which publication did NOT publish content from this series of short stories?
Lancer Books | |
Sphere Books | |
Fantastic | |
Ace Books |