What was the Arab Spring? What were its root causes? What nations in the region have been the most impacted by the Arab Spring?
What will be an ideal response?
The Arab Spring began in late -2010 and crested during the spring of 2011. Its root causes were (1) corrupt
governments where people had no democratic recourse at the ballot box, (2) widespread unemployment among young, well-educated people and (3) a rise in food prices. Popular revolts resulted in the overthrow of regimes in Tunisia, Libya and most importantly in the most populous Arab nation in the region, Egypt. The Arab Spring was also the catalyst which began the Syrian Civil War as thousands of Sunni protestors were massacred by government troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad, setting off cycles of violence which has resulted in the complete breakdown of Syria into a fractured, war-torn land of chaos.
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A) cold; unstable B) warm; stable C) warm; unstable D) cold; stable
Small sea level rise on a shore with a gentle slope will cause a substantial shift in shoreline location
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Most oceanic plateaus are
A. small pieces rifted apart from continents. B. places where the seafloor has been buckled upward by convergence. C. large fan-shaped mounds deposited by turbidity currents. D. constructed by volcanic eruptions probably over mantle plumes.
Air and water pollution are directly responsible for the loss of some species. In their studies of these pollution effects, biologists have determined that ________ are especially sensitive to air pollution, and are now being used as an index of urban
air quality. A) songbirds B) lichens C) deciduous trees D) warblers E) evergreen trees