Which is NOT TRUE regarding land degradation?
A) Poverty is a major cause of land degradation.
B) Land degradation can lead to landslides.
C) Soil compaction is one form of land degradation.
D) Land-use change has universally negative effects on human well-being.
E) Demand for more food production contributes to overexploitation of good agricultural soil.
D
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The main tenet of ecofeminism is that women have been better stewards of the environment than men have been. 2. The Protestant belief in predestination led early Calvinists to display wealth in order to prove their worthiness of heaven. 3. Elite responses to the way humans see their individual bodies connecting to nature typically reject ecological bodily processes. 4. Ecological modernization describes the process through which manufacturing facilities update their equipment to be less polluting.
The window of opportunity presented by the demographic dividend generally ends as
A) people start having larger families. B) people live longer. C) economic pressures require more people to work. D) rural populations increase.
What best describes why irregular shorelines evolve and become straighter over time?
A. waves erode headlands and deposit sediment in coves and bays B. plate tectonics causes uplift of the land, producing a more uniform coastline C. waves smooth out differences in the width of the beach D. forces that result from Earth spinning on its axis E. continuous sea level rise