A large earthquake in rural China killed 250,000 people, while an earthquake of similar size in California killed only 65
These comparative figures demonstrate that natural disasters can have greater or lesser effects on human life depending on __________. A) social conditions that determine who has access to houses with appropriate safety features
B) whether the government is communist or democratic
C) how fast people can get away during a natural disaster
D) nothing in particular; the differences in mortality rates were completely random
A
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Current evidence suggests that there were __________ separate early migrations of humans to the New World.
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
Some paleoanthropologists refer to the earliest Homo erectus as ___________
a. H. ergaster b. H. rudolfensis c. H. neanderthalensis d. H. paranthropus
__________ is a kinship principle in which descent and inheritance follow gender-linked lines so that men consider themselves descended from their fathers and women consider themselves descended from their mothers
a. Ambilineal descent b. Bilateral descent c. Parallel descent d. Double descent
What is the name of the Brazilian danceplay that reenacts the Portuguese discovery of Brazil?
A. Arembepeiros B. Chegança C. ParantÃns D. Carnaval E. Dia do Descobrimento