The study of pollen grains or spores (palynology) has had limited success with regard to the reconstruction of past climates because there is not a wide variety of plants that produce pollen, which limits the potential of this type of proxy evidence.   A. True B. False 79) Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get   A. True B. False 80) The Earth is tilted on its axis at an angle between ~22 and 24.5 degrees. This axial tilt is referred to as obliquity and varies on a cycle of ~41000 years.   A. True B. False 81) The process or action of intentionally selecting data or a small number of exceptions to yield a result counter to the full data set is referred to as ‘cherry picking’   A. True B. False

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78) The study of pollen grains or spores (palynology) has had limited success with regard to the reconstruction of past climates because there is not a wide variety of plants that produce pollen, which limits the potential of this type of proxy evidence.

 
A. True
B. False

79) Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get

 
A. True
B. False

80) The Earth is tilted on its axis at an angle between ~22 and 24.5 degrees. This axial tilt is referred to as obliquity and varies on a cycle of ~41000 years.

 
A. True
B. False

81) The process or action of intentionally selecting data or a small number of exceptions to yield a result counter to the full data set is referred to as ‘cherry picking’

 
A. True
B. False

 

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