Question: Q: What determines which type of precipitation falls? Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers: Why does it snow instead of rain? Air temperature determines which type of precipitation falls. Rain falls if the air temperature is above freezing (0 C or 32 F). Frozen precipitation falls if the air or ground is below freezing. Frozen precipitation may fall as snow, sleet, or freezing rain. You can see how the different types form in Figure below . Choices: - air pressure - air currents - ground temperature - air temperature A:
Answer: air temperature

Question: Q: Migration and hibernation are examples of behaviors that occur on what temporal basis? Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers: Many animal behaviors occur in repeated cycles. Migration and hibernation are examples of behaviors with annual cycles. Sleeping and waking are examples of behaviors with daily cycles. Choices: - nocturnal - weekly - daily - annual A:
Answer: annual

Question: Q: What is the time since the beginning of the ice ages? Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers: The Quaternary Period is the time since the beginning of the ice ages. The climate has been cooler than it was earlier in the Cenozoic. Since the end of the Pleistocene ice ages, which are probably not entirely over, we have been in the Holocene Epoch. The Holocene is also called the Recent. Choices: - Paleolithic era - Mesozoic epocH - Jurassic period - quaternary period A:
Answer:
quaternary period