In India, which segment of the population benefitted the most from the Green Revolution?
A) environmentalists
B) merchants, particularly those who owned their own fleet of trucks
C) poor farmers in the drier parts of the country
D) poor farmers who had access to water
E) wealthy farmers who owned large tracts of land
E
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A) 10,000 years ago. B) 100,000 years ago. C) 1.1 million years ago. D) 1,000 years ago. E) 10 million years ago.
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a. International Date Line b. equator c. perihelion d. Prime Meridian e. geographic grid
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a. converted to kinematic energy. b. used in chemical substractions. c. lost through convectional cooling at the top of the storm. d. converted to kinetic energy and lost through radiational cooling e. lost through hail.
Which of the following best matches the description?Naturally occurring radioactive isotope used in nuclear reactors.
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