5. how do tiny biogenous tests, that would otherwise be carried horizontally long distances by currents, reach the ocean floor directly below where test secreting organisms live? they sink vertically in fecal pellets excreted by heterotrophic organisms. b. adsorption to vertically sinking precipitates. they are swept vertically into turbidity currents. d. they percolate vertically through hydrothermal vents

tropical storm katrina, and it made landfall between miami and fort lauder-dale, florida, as a category 1 hurricane (a storm that, on the saffir-simpson scale, exhibits winds in the range of 74–95 miles per hour [119–154 km per hour]). sustained winds of 70 miles per hour (115 km per hour) lashed the florida peninsula, and rainfall totals of 5 inches (13 cm) were reported in some areas. the storm spent less than eight hours over land. it quickly intensified when it reached the warm waters of the gulf of mexico.

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