Which of the following is a way that environmental problems are associated with the city?
a. The increased movement away from the cities to the suburbs has created problems with the urban environment
b. Cars and power plants emit greenhouse gases and pollution from carbon dioxide
c. Heat retention in the treeless concrete jungles of cities
d. The massive creation of waste such as organic matter rich in nutrients that could be used as fertilizer to benefit the environment in rural areas
b. Cars and power plants emit greenhouse gases and pollution from carbon dioxide
c. Heat retention in the treeless concrete jungles of cities
d. The massive creation of waste such as organic matter rich in nutrients that could be used as fertilizer to benefit the environment in rural areas
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Which of the following is true?
A. Medical journals will not publish articles on drug research funded by the pharmaceutical industry. B. Doctors cannot legally prescribe a drug as treatment for a given condition unless it has been scientifically tested for that specific condition. C. Pharmaceutical companies cannot legally market a new and expensive drug unless it differs substantially from older, less expensive drugs. D. University-based medical researchers do not accept research funding from the pharmaceutical industry. E. None of these are true.
Susie gets her bachelor's degree in chemistry from a regional state college. Mary gets her bachelor's degree in chemistry from an Ivy League college. They will likely experience the effects of
a. the prestige gap b. teacher expectancy c. climate effects on education d. credentialism
In 2011, a wave of popular uprisings seeking more democratic government swept across which region of the world?
a. sub-Saharan Africa b. North America c. South America d. the Middle East
According to the textbook, why did diseases such as smallpox and measles produce epidemics that ravaged or completely wiped out native populations in the Americas after contact with Europeans in the late fifteenth century?
a. Europeans refused to share their medicines with the native peoples. b. The native peoples lacked resistance to these diseases. c. Europeans forced the native peoples to relocate to massive urban centers, where the bacteria easily spread. d. Europeans forced the native peoples to abandon their traditional medicines, which had kept the diseases largely at bay before contact.