Briefly explain how the concept of microlending can help people get out of poverty.

What will be an ideal response?


Most of the world's poor people want to work and earn enough to climb out of poverty and make a better life for themselves and their families. But few of them have credit records or assets that they could use as collateral to secure the loans that they could use to buy what they would need to start farming or to start small businesses.

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Explain how the IPAT model and the ecological footprint model emphasize different aspects of how natural resources are affected by unsustainable use

What will be an ideal response

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CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) tries to prevent the extinction of species by ________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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The presence of ____________________, which are incompletely melted pieces of rock within

igneous rocks, demonstrates that ____________________ occurs. Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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What are the subdivisions of the geologic time scale, listed in order from longest to shortest time intervals?

A)eon, era, period, and epoch B)epoch, eon, era, and period C)eon, epoch, period, and era D)era, eon, period, and epoch E)eon, era, epoch, and period

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