Examining an old abandoned home several months after a flood, a relief worker suddenly experiences difficulty breathing. At the hospital, she learns that she experienced
A) a chronic respiratory illness, tuberculosis, more common in the developed world.
B) a chronic respiratory illness, malaria, more common in the developing world.
C) an acute respiratory illness, asthma, more common in the developed world.
D) an acute respiratory illness, schistosomiasis, more common in the developing world.
C
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How can the IPAT model be used to predict changes caused by continued growth in China?
A. If China continues to use harmful technologies its environmental impacts will increase. B. The IPAT model predicts that China's military might will grow sharply. C. The IPAT model predicts that China's environmental impacts will dramatically decrease. D. As China's population increases, the share of resources it consumes will decrease.
The water table separates confined and unconfined aquifers
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following is NOT true about the world's energy supply?
A) 33 percent of the world's natural gas is produced in Southwest Asia and Russia. B) Approximately 50 percent of the world's coal reserves are found in China. C) Russia and Saudi Arabia provide at least 25 percent of the world's petroleum. D) The United States produced 50 percent of the world's petroleum output. E) 33 percent of the world's natural gas comes from the United States and other developed countries.
Erosional remnants of rock that lie at some distance from the shore are:
a. wave-cut cliffs b. wave-cut platforms c. spits d. stacks