What factors contributed to the Arab Spring?
The worsening conditions in many of the Arab countries—the poverty, crowding, unemployment, and the growing gap between the great mass of the poor and the increasingly wealthy rich—were the economic ingredients of the Arab Spring.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) was enacted in 1980. All of the following actions are a result of the implementation of the (CERCLA) EXCEPT
A. a great deal of money was spent on law suits. B. in cases where several companies contributed to a hazardous waste site, one of the companies could be required to pay for the entire cleanup. C. the development of a National Priorities List. D. by 2016 nearly all of the sites on the national priorities list had been cleaned up.
The environmental lapse rate typically decreases at night because
A) the surface absorbs more longwave radiation than the air aloft B) the surface absorbs less longwave radiation than the air aloft C) the surface cools more slowly than the air aloft D) the surface cools more rapidly than the air aloft
Based on the definition of a mineral, which of the choices below lists only minerals?
a. water, ice, gold, and synthetic diamonds b. ice, water, wood, gold, and synthetic diamonds c. wood, ice, and gold d. gold and ice e. synthetic diamonds and gold