What Did the Continued Practice of Impressment of American Sailors

question 11

Multiple Choice

What did the continued practice of impressment of American sailors by the British Royal Navy signal in the nineteenth century?

• A) The United States was politically strong.
• B) France was militarily strong.
• C) Great Britain was militarily weak.
• D) The United States was still politically weak.

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Definitions:

Food Chain

A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food, illustrating the flow of energy and nutrients from one organism to another.

Ecological Pyramid

A graphical representation of the relative energy value at each trophic level. See pyramid of biomass and pyramid of energy.

Trophic Levels

The hierarchical levels in an ecosystem, determined by the feeding position of organisms in food chains.

Energy Loss

The reduction in energy as it moves through the trophic levels of an ecosystem; often described in the context of the inefficiency of energy transfer between levels.