Vector-borne illness such as Lyme disease and Malaria are carried by insects such as mosquitoes and ticks, causing 17% of the world’s deaths. Which of the following is true regarding the role of climate change in vector-borne illness?
a. The global warming associated with climate change will aid in the reduction of vector-borne illnesses as susceptible regions dry and flooding is reduced.
b. As the climate warms and becomes wetter, vector-borne diseases may become more threatening, pervasive, and be more easily transmitted.
c. Climate change will continue to cause droughts, pushing people from cities with few resources to agricultural regions, thus diminishing exposure to vector-borne illnesses.
d. As climate change continues to cause extreme weather around the globe, more regions will experience desertification, increasing exposure to vector-borne illnesses.
b. As the climate warms and becomes wetter, vector-borne diseases may become more threatening, pervasive, and be more easily transmitted.
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A. Decisive reasoning B. Deductive reasoning C. Comparative reasoning D. Inductive reasoning E. Qualitative reasoning
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. social trend b. personal trend c. group trend d. None of these.
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A. both parental parties who engage a surrogate mother are responsible for the child B. in surrogate mother situations, only the donor of the ovum is responsible for the child C. in surrogate mother situations, only the donor of the sperm is responsible for the child D. surrogate mothers are partially responsible for the care and support of the child