Tuvalu, Kiribati, and the Marshall Islands are already experiencing disastrous flooding related to global climate change. What has been the response of the people on these islands?
A) They have built polders patterned after those found in the Netherlands.
B) The islands have banded together into a strong political union lobbying for a global
solution to climate change.
C) All three have instituted a policy of transmigration, encouraging citizens to move to the
center of their island countries.
D) Scientists on these islands have worked together to build a highly advanced sea wall.
E) They have done nothing.
B) The islands have banded together into a strong political union lobbying for a global
solution to climate change.
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The question is based on this contour line map with elevations shown in feet.
• North is to the top of the map.
• Streams are shown with dashed lines.
• A graphic scale for measuring horizontal distances is shown below the map.
• Estimate elevations between contour lines to the nearest half-contour interval; assume that the top of a
hill is one-half-contour interval higher than the highest contour line shown.
What will be an ideal response?
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in the Northern Hemisphere only. b. in the Southern Hemisphere only. c. in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. d. in neither hemisphere
Drainage basins are separated by the ________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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What will be an ideal response?