Which statement about the present-day crises of global warming and deforestation is FALSE?
a. Tropical forests replenish the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.
b. High prices and the demand for tropical hardwoods have felled vast areas of forests.
c. Rising grain prices have provided farmers with incentive to cut forests to plant sugar.
d. Central Africa and Indonesia have been leading nations in deforestation.
e. To evade environmental regulations, many nations have been subjected to political bribery.
Question 2
During the centuries of Roman history, from Republic to Empire, the paterfamilias' authority
a. increased.
b. decreased.
c. fluctuated.
d. remained the same.
e. was eliminated entirely.
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