Imagine that you have been sent as a Peace Corps volunteer to a poor African nation experiencing widespread hunger. Design a strategy for assessing the needs of the people and for contacting appropriate sources for help

What will be an ideal response?


It would be necessary to determine the kind of food that is consumed by the population; it would be a waste of effort and so on to bring in food that the population does not know how to prepare or consume. Once the kind of food is known, contacting the FAO and Famine Early Warning System Network would be the next step. Once the immediate food problem has been addressed, it would be time to plan how to avoid the problem in the future.

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You find some limestone rock in southern Indiana and notice that it has fossil trilobites in it. Later you find the same fossil trilobites in a limestone in Colorado. From this you determine that the two rock types were deposited during the same time period using what concept or principle?

A. principle of Unconformities B. principle of Cross-cutting Relationships C. principle of Uniformitarianism D. principle of Inclusions E. principle of Correlation using fossils

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Regions where air masses originate are known as ____________________

Fill in the blank with correct word.

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Referring to Newton's second law of motion, which of the following determines the acceleration of the object?

A. force and mass B. temperature and mass C. force and temperature D. mass and density

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