Why is the island of Socotra, off the southeast coast of Yemen, considered unique?
A) It is one of the largest islands in the world.
B) It is one of the smallest islands containing permanent habitation.
C) It contains one of the largest untouched tropical forest preserves in the world.
D) It possesses a unique biological habitat, containing hundreds of plant species found nowhere else on Earth.
E) It has the lowest elevation of any place on the Earth.
D
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Over the last 200 hundred years, clusters of improved technological innovations seem to have come in waves of industrialization every half-century or so. With each successive wave, the world-system
A) core expanded. B) periphery expanded. C) core and periphery remained unchanged. D) core and periphery both expanded. E) core and periphery both shrank.
The harvest of rice using machinery powered by fossil fuels best represents the results of which two revolutions?
A) The Environmental Revolution and Medical Revolution B) The Industrial Revolution and Military Revolution C) The Medical Revolution and Social Revolution D) The Neolithic Revolution and Industrial Revolution
As air in the figure above moves from A to B, what will happen to its density?
A. It will increase. B. It will decrease. C. It will decrease at first, and then increase. D. It will remain the same.
Which of the following is not a b-lactam antibiotic?
A) Cephalexin B) Amoxicillin C) Permethrin D) Clavulanic acid