Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. A billion is 1000 million.
2. According to the principle of superposition, the older sedimentary beds lie beneath the younger beds.
3. The statistical measure of the rate of decay of a radioactive isotope is termed its half-life.
4. Potassium-argon can be used to directly date bone.
5. A needle on a compass points to magnetic north. Magnetic north has always been in the same relative position.
1. true
2. true
3. true
4. false
5. false
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Gender stratification
A. is less pronounced among agriculturalists. B. is includes societies where women control all the strategic resources. C. is generally reduced when the domestic and public spheres are not sharply separated. D. allows women to become more powerful as they contribute more to the domestic sphere. E. allows women to become more powerful as they contribute less to the domestic sphere.
The Miocene hominoids
a. were distributed over much of the New World b. were all members of the same species c. displayed little to no morphological variation d. were all about the size of a house cat e. evidenced the "golden age of hominoids"
For most horticulturalists, people __________.
A) own the land but not the foods obtained from it B) do not own the land, but own the foods obtained from it C) own neither the land nor the foods obtained from it D) own both the land and the foods obtained from it
Pastoralism, as a specialized subsistence strategy, probably arose in conjunction with specialized intensive agriculture
Indicate whether the statement is true or false