Unless checked, population growth tends to continue until it runs up against environmental limits causing poverty, hunger, misery and resource scarcity—eventually leading to a population crash. This view was proponed by which thinker?
a) Thomas Malthus
b) Frances Moore Lappé
c) Paul Ehrlich
d) Julian Simon
a) Thomas Malthus
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How did the joints in this photograph form?
A) From uplift
B) From burial
C) From tectonics
D) From weathering
E) From cooling
Since the formation of our ocean, Earth has made approximately ____ orbits around the galaxy
a. 20 b. 42 c. 230 d. 280
The only substance near the earth's surface that is found naturally in the atmosphere as a solid,
liquid, and a gas is: a. carbon dioxide. b. water. c. molecular oxygen. d. ozone. e. carbon.
Of the following, the most important reason monsoons are socially significant in places like India is that ________
A) most of the population is crowded in cities B) many people depend on fishing in monsoon-created lakes C) most of the population are farmers D) many of the people do not have the Internet for timely flood warnings E) most people are unaware that they will reoccur