Multiple Choice
If Earth's remaining glaciers melt, how would the global sea level change?
A) hardly at all; most of the water would be absorbed by porous land and by increasing size of freshwater lakes and rivers
B) the sea level would rise about 8 m
C) the sea level would rise about 80 m
D) the sea level would rise about 120 m
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