Read the scenario and answer the accompanying questions.
Climate change presents agriculture with challenges and uncertainties. In most of the middle and higher latitudes, global warming will impact the length of the potential growing season. This seasonal change could possibly allow for earlier planting in the spring as well as earlier harvesting, with the possibility of completing two harvests in one season. However, most climate models indicate that conditions for agriculture will worsen in tropical latitudes, as a result of increasing temperatures.
-The process that is most likely to be affected by increasing temperatures, thereby influencing tropical croplands is _______.
A) evapotranspiration
B) salinization
C) tropical pest increase
D) genetic diversity
E) soil nutrient content
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-Gravitational
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-Hygroscopic
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-Capillary
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-Field
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-Soil
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