Discuss how road building can lead to multiple levels of forest degradation.
What will be an ideal response?
Road building, by its very nature, fragments formerly continuous forests. The road can lead to increased erosion and stream sedimentation. Logging roads allow the introduction of exotic, invasive species. Roads allow a higher degree of human contact and disturbance including poaching activities and illegal tree cutting. In the Amazon rain forest, road building sets off a whole chain of events that result in deforestation and eventual conversion to savanna.
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Confucianism stresses all of the following ideals, EXCEPT
A) the need for the aristocracy to serve in the bureaucracy. B) respect for tradition. C) the importance of ethics. D) deference to authority. E) the importance of the family.
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A. bimetallic thermometer B. radiometer C. electrical resistance thermometer D. thermistor
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