A severe shortage of food leading to mass starvation, many deaths, economic chaos, and social disruption is called ____.

A. chronic undernutrition
B. famine
C. hunger
D. chronic malnutrition
E. food security


Answer: B

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Fill in the blank with correct word.

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The Cwa climate of Lucknow, India owes its precipitation pattern to

A. seasonal shifts in wind direction. B. typhoons that bring high amounts of rain. C. the moist western side of the subtropical high. D. the dry eastern side of the subtropical high.

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Saint Pierre on the Caribbean Island of Martinique was destroyed by which of the following?

a. ash and pumice falls b. flowing lava c. pyroclastic density currents d. poisonous gasses e. a tsunami

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Cations have loaned out electrons and so have a

A. neutral charge. B. negative charge. C. positive charge.

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