Which of the following statements is false?
a. About 1.2 million people are killed worldwide annually in motor vehicle accidents.
b. Motor vehicles are the largest source of air pollution.
c. More Americans have been killed by automobiles than on battlefields in all U.S. wars.
d. In the United States, more than 40,000 people die annually in motor vehicle accidents.
e. Motor vehicles are second only to industry as a source of air pollution in the U.S.
E
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The Western Ghats
A) are a separatist group that is calling for the division of India into eastern and western halves. B) form the border between India and Pakistan. C) is the Indian political party that currently rules the country. D) are a range of mountains that separate the narrow western coast of peninsular India from the rest of the country. E) is the major cattle ranching region of Pakistan.
In the Atlantic Ocean, where is the oldest oceanic crust?
A. seamounts B. mid-ocean ridges C. abyssal plain next to the continents D. continental shelves close to the shoreline E. oceanic trenches
Consider a food chain in which a grasshopper eats grass, the grasshopper is eaten by a frog, and the frog is eaten by a snake. Given these relationships, which of the following is not correctly matched?
(a) grass -- autotroph (b) grasshopper -- herbivore (c) frog -- secondary consumer (d) snake -- primary consumer
A dynamic system refers to a system in which
A) motion causes the matter within the system to contain less energy than it would have contained when sitting still. B) water molecules are constantly increasing in speed over time. C) the first law of thermodynamics does not apply. D) matter, energy, or both are constantly changing their position, amounts, or form.