What does Sidney Mintz mean by the "core-fringe-legume" pattern?
a. It is a way of building a complete meal with various components.
b. It is a type of horticulture in which people are completely self-subsistent.
c. It is a way of farming that includes rotation of crops.
d. It is a way of talking about the process of domestication.
e. It is a foraging pattern that determined where food gatherers would move and how frequently.
a
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The global trend over the last several decades has been toward:
a. a greater number of democracies. b. a greater number of autocracies. c. fewer free elections of political leaders. d. greater repression of opposition political parties. e. the evolution of a non-state social system.
__________ are attitudes that people hold about themselves
a. Self-concepts b. Cultural notions c. Personality traits d. Interdependent views
The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon that keeps the earth's surface warm. Without greenhouse gases—water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, halocarbons, and ozone—life as we know it wouldn't exist. The current problem is that
A. most scientists dispute the anthropogenic reasoning for high concentrations of greenhouse gases. B. the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases has reached its highest level in 400,000 years and will continue to rise, as will global temperatures, without actions to slow it down. C. scientists cannot agree on a general model of how the greenhouse effect went from being a positive to a negative and a life-threatening force. D. global warming actually benefits 90 percent of the world's population, so it is difficult to mobilize the will to address the anthropogenic causes of climate change. E. it is difficult to distinguish between climate change and global warming.
The term "Blue Revolution" refers to
A) a revolt of Caribbean porpoises, forced to swim with tourists. B) growing a new variety of high yield GM corn that turns the skin of consumers blue. C) growing finfish and shellfish commercially. D) harvesting plankton from the ocean for human food. E) a revolt of the Tuaregs of the Sahara, referring to their indigo dyed robes.