Section 1-Verbal Ability 30 Questions-30 Minutes Antonym Directions: In each of the following antonym questions‚ a work printed in capital letters precedes five lettered words or phrases. From these five lettered words or phrases‚ pick the one most nearly opposite in meaning to the capitalized word. 1. PRODIGAL: (A) nomad (B) sycophant (C) gifted child (D) economical person (E) antagonist 2. ARTIFICE: (A) edifice (B) sincerity (C) prejudice (D) creativity (E) affirmation Sentence Completion
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The Mid-Atlantic Ridge‚ East Pacific Rise‚ East Africa Rift Valleys‚ Red Sea‚ Gulf of California are examples of what kind of plate boundaries. -divergent Andes Mountains‚ Cascade Mountains‚ Aleutian Islands‚ Mariana Islands‚ Himalaya Mountains‚ and the Alps are examples of what kind of plate boundaries -convergent Is it a faster or slower spreading mid-ocean ridge that produces broader and less rugged segments? -faster When you have Oceanic-Contintental convergance‚ which one
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approximately 150 miles southward crossing five state lines. West coast fault zones are called transform faults in contrast‚ the New Madrid fault is called an intraplate zone. This means that there is a weak spot in the middle of the North American Plate with a series of faults in the Earth’s crust and is called the Reelfoot Rift‚ named after Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee‚ that was formed during the quake‚ (The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture). It wasn’t until 1909 that seismographs
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FLOW MEASUREMENT (Venturi meter‚ Orifice Plate and Rotameter) OBJECTIVES To study the characteristics and applications of various flow measuring device (venturi meter & orifice plate). To calculate the volume flow rate of water from the pressure difference of both venturi and orifice devices. To compare between theoretical and actual volumetric flow rate through the discharge coefficient concept. To know how rotameter works. INTRODUCTION The measurement of fluid flow is important in applications
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“Eat some more food.” Everyone surrounding me was telling me to eat more and more. Aunties‚ uncles‚ and cousins that I never even knew I had were telling me to eat. Even though I was already full‚ I picked up another plate and started to eat again. Every time I go to a Filipino party‚ I find myself eating more and more. Growing up Filipino‚ I have always been accustomed to going to a big Filipino family party at least once a month. Usually‚ my family would all get together at an auntie or uncles
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time of origin of an earthquake based on seismic data Materials Needed: • 3 component seismograms‚ • Travel time curve‚ • Globe or map for locating epicenter‚ • String (with globe) or compass (with map) • Map with Tectonic Plates illustrated. Jeffrey Barker‚ Binghamton University Questions or comments: barker@geol.binghamton.edu Time Management: Teacher Background: A tremendous number of earthquakes occur every year around the world. The vast majority of these earthquakes
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also affecting several ecosystems‚ and human health. 1.1 Thera/Santorini’s Location Santorini’s location is dangerously placed in a particularly volcanic area on the Aegean plate‚ the south Aegean volcanic arc (Fig. 1).3 The region’s islands formed as a result of interaction between the Aegean plate and the African plate.3 Santorini is located in the middle of the Aegean sea‚ surrounded by several major Mediterranean civilizations existing in mainland Greece‚ northern Africa and Asia minor. The
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Under Armour Enters the Basketball Shoe Market ______________________________________________________________________________ This case was written by Professors George E. Belch and Michael A. Belch. It is intended to be used as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a management situation. The case was compiled from published sources. Company Background Under Armour (UA) was founded
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the Earth ’s continents relative to each other. The hypothesis that continents ’drift ’ was first put forward by Abraham Ortelius in 1596 and was fully developed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. However‚ it was not until the development of the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s‚ that a sufficientgeological explanation of that movement was found. |Contents | | [hide] | |1 History
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Millions of years ago Pangaea is what was believed to be‚ and now has evidence to support‚ the first continent on earth. It is referred to as the super continent as all existing continents were connected to it. In Greek‚ Pangaea is defined as “all the earth”; the man who came up with theory was Alfred Wegener. Wegener had a PhD in astronomy but always had an interest in geoscience. “Wegener was browsing in the university library when he came across a scientific paper that listed fossils of identical
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