Which of the following best describes the trends in world poverty since 1820?
a. The number of people living on less than 1 per day has increased steadily.
b. While the number of people living on less than 1 per day rose steadily until the 1950s, the second half of the twentieth century witnessed a sharp decline.
c. The number of people living on less than 1 per day has stayed about the same regardless of much international effort to reduce the total.
d. The number of people living on less than 1 per day has experienced significant fluctuations corresponding with wars and other world events such that no trend is discernible.
Question 2
The scenes captured by the nineteenth-century impressionists were indicative of:
a. social change.
b. social statics.
c. free love.
d. tragedy.
Whales of the World
World Ecosystem
Ottoman Empire and the Arab World, 1914
A History of the World's Religions
Relationship between the number of amino acid substitutions
Tropical rain forests on the world map