A study of how government policy has increased deforestation by encouraging road building, logging, and ranching, is a study in political ecology

Indicate whether the statement is true or false


TRUE

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Prosimians are classified as primates because they possess:

A. a catarrhine nose B. an enhanced sense of smell C. three bones in the middle ear D. none of these

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An ethnography is a record of the sound patterns of a particular language

a. True b. False

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The faunal assemblage from the site of Chavín de Huántar, Peru, contains an abundance of leg bones with few cranial and foot bones. This pattern has been explained by

a. large animal disturbance; cranial and foot bone were preferentially carried away from the site by carnivores, while leg bones were left behind. b. taphonomic processes; bone preservation at high altitude sites is notoriously poor. c. ch'arki trade; dried llama and alpaca meat on leg bones was traded into the site from high-altitude herding communities. d. decreasing reliance on camelid meat by residents of the site through time. e. rapidly decreasing population and the discontinuance of the freez-drying process called ch'arki.

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Which of the following is NOT a feature of urban life?

A. high population density B. social heterogeneity C. dispersed settlements D. economic differentiation E. geographic mobility

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