Which of the following statements best describes the 21st century economic realities of India?
A) the gap between the extremely wealthy and extremely poor has closed in recent decades
in India
B) a large, prosperous middle class with far smaller numbers of people who are either
extremely poor or extremely wealthy
C) an emerging middle class numbering some 270 million people but with large numbers of
people still well below the poverty line
D) poverty exists but only in rural areas
E) vast poverty with little to no emerging middle class
C) an emerging middle class numbering some 270 million people but with large numbers of
people still well below the poverty line
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The current world population is approximately
A. 1.5 billion. B. 4.2 billion. C. 7.1 billion. D. 10.1 billion. E. 15.8 billion.
What is the horizontal distance from C to B?
The question is based on this contour line map with elevations shown in feet.
• North is to the top of the map.
• Streams are shown with dashed lines.
• A graphic scale for measuring horizontal distances is shown below the map.
• Estimate elevations between contour lines to the nearest half-contour interval; assume that the top of a
hill is one-half-contour interval higher than the highest contour line shown.
What will be an ideal response?
By 100 CE, Rome had reached the population of
A) Two millions B) Half a million C) One million D) One hundred thousand
As of 2014, the Superfund cleanup program has resulted in
A) fewer than 10 sites receiving all the necessary cleanup. B) only about 100 sites receiving all the necessary cleanup. C) more than a thousand sites receiving all the necessary cleanup. D) the necessary cleanup of more than 99% of all Superfund sites.