An earthquake strikes at midnight.  Everyone in your house is awakened.  A few things fall off the dresser and bookshelves, and some dishes are broken.  Then heavy furniture is moved and falls.  Luckily you are able to get out of the house into an open field, away from structures.  Your chimney falls, but the chimneys of all of your neighbors remain standing.   **Do your best to estimate the Intensity of the earthquake at your location and write it below.  Use the Modified Mercalli or USGS Intensity scale. There are a range of possible answers here; I’ve accounted for that.  Please write only one Roman numeral to indicate your answer.

Earthquake moment magnitude is calculated by multiplying which of the following together. **There are THREE correct answers here.  You must select all correct answers, and only those correct answers, to get full credit for this question.

Under __________________ an otherwise ductile material can behave in a brittle way.

From each dropdown menu choose the correct eruption style that goes along with each of the images below. a.  [a]    b. [b]      c. [c] Image of multiple lava domes

The cost, in dollars, of a member ship to SAMS for n months can be described by the explicit equation What does the 70 in the equation tell you?

If Memphis is growing according to the equation , where n is years after 2008.  Find when the population will be 400 thousand?

An RNA preparation has the following absorbance readings: A260 = 0.208; A280 = 0.096. The calculated ratio is closest to:

Why is RNA isolation best performed using fresh clinical specimens?

Determine the quantity of isolated DNA using the following information: Dilution 1:200; DNA Preparation Volume = 0.300mL; A260 = 0.50. What is the total amount of DNA?

In the organic liquid DNA extraction method, DNA is found in the: