__________ are words in different languages that are derived from the same word in their parent language
a. Loanwords
b. Cognates
c. Language families
d. Lingua francas
b
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Which of the following is NOT an effect of climate change on the Pacific island nation of Kiribati?
a. Sea water often inundates people’s fields, damaging crops. b. The traditional economy based on domestication of pigs was disrupted. c. Some fish and marine species are disappearing. d. The capital island is overcrowded because many people have already left the smaller islands.
About 12,000 years ago, climatic conditions changed, resulting in new forests, more plant food, and abundant sources of fish and other food around lakeshores, bays, and rivers. Human populations developed new techniques to catch and kill animals, and spent more time fishing and collecting wild plant foods. This new way of life marks the beginning of the Middle Stone Age, also called the:
a. Lower Paleolithic. b. Middle Paleolithic. c. Upper Paleolithic. d. Mesolithic. e. Neolithic.
In __________,“dowry death” is a phenomenon in which young brides are murdered so that the family may seek remarriage, and another dowry, for their son
a. Saudi Arabia b. India c. Malaysia d. Uganda
In Papua New Guinea, the modern legal system is based on a thorough study of the complex mosaic of customary legal systems
a. True b. False