What is carrying capacity? What is one way that humans strain the earth’s carrying capacity?
What will be an ideal response?
Students should first define carrying capacity as the earth’s ability to meet the needs of its population and then describe population growth, food scarcity, or energy shortages as one of the ways that humans strain the earth’s carrying capacity.
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Race can be defined as a group of human beings with distinctive physical characteristics determined by genetic inheritance, but some scholars define it as __________
a. less genetically determined than ethnically determined b. more culturally determined than genetically determined c. more demographically determined than physically determined d. strictly physical with no genetic components
In U.S. v. Lopez, the Supreme Court ruled that the __________ clause did not give Congress the constitutional authority to regulate guns near a school
a. reserved powers b. commerce c. militia d. supremacy