What is a main problem of road and rail networks constructed during the colonial era?
A) They went through the downtown districts of major interior cities.
B) They failed to take topography into account when the routes were planned.
C) They had to import wood from Europe.
D) They bear little resemblance to the distribution of the population.
E) They were only built in India.
D
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Locate and give the geographic coordinates for the following cities (to a tenth of a degree if your atlas maps are detailed enough) or identify the cities from the given coordinates. The answers to a) and e) are provided for you in bracketed italics. Once you have identified the cities and found the coordinates, plot the coordinates in items 1 (a) through (h) above on the map grid in Figure 2.1, and label the city names.
City
(a) Greenwich, London, England
(b) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(c) Sydney, Australia
(d) __________________________
(e) __________________________
(f) __________________________
(g) __________________________
Latitude and Longitude
(a) __________________________
(b) __________________________
(c) __________________________
(d) 35.7°N 139.7°E
(e) 8.8°S 13.2°E
(f) 21.3°N, 157.8°W
(g) 54.8°S, 68.3°W
During which of the following processes is most ATP generated?
A) glycolysis B) Krebs cycle C) electron transport D) fermentation
Which of the following is not true of peridotite?
A) It is denser than basaltic rocks. B) It is composed almost entirely of olivine and pyroxene. C) It is the main constituent of the Earth's crust. D) It is rarely found at the Earth's surface.
The wavelength or the distance from peak to peak of energy waves is a characteristic of ________
A) conduction B) convection C) radiation D) contraction