What do Bogota, Casablanca, Cairo, and Kolkata have in common as an urban challenge?
A) These are the urban centers projected to be most affected by global warming in the year 2050.
B) In these four cities, the urban growth is projected to be more than 95 percent over the next 10 years.
C) They have the highest birth rates per capita of urban centers worldwide.
D) They are the top four cities worldwide for urban pollution.
E) More than half of their urban population lives in slums and squatter settlements.
E
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Mary Leakey is most known for:
a. her discovery of Ardipithecus ramidus. b. her study of Oldowan tools. c. her work as an assistant to Louis Leakey. d. her studies of chimpanzees. e. proving the existence of the molecular clock in human origins.
Historical archaeologists in North America have provided much needed information about __________
A. immigrants who arrived in the last 500 years B. migration of the first humans on the continent C. historical records of indigenous societies D. physical characteristics of American Indian tribes
Periphery nations
A. export to the core but not to the semiperiphery. B. lack industrialization. C. are isolated from the world economy. D. have economies that disproportionately benefit capitalists in the core. E. have little incentive to interact with nations of the core.
The nuclear family is especially well adapted to a mode of subsistence that requires:
a. healthy children b. accumulated wealth c. a large labor force d. a high degree of geographical mobility