Questions Refer to the Photo and Graph Below

question 101

Multiple Choice

Questions refer to the photo and graph below.
Document #1:
Ecological Crisis in the Amazon Document #2
Annual Changes in Global Forest Cover
-Which of the following was a reaction to the worldwide environmental issues of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries?

• A) The Third World took the lead in providing solutions for environmental decay.
• B) The United Nations formed effective sanctions against states that refused to alter activity that harmed the environment.
• C) The Soviet Union and China became concerned about environmental decay caused by their rapid industrialization and passed strict laws governing industry.
• D) Nongovernmental agencies were formed to protest against environmental degradation when nation-states seemed unable to curb the activities of multinational corporations.

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Definitions:

Median

The value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample or probability distribution.

Positively Skewed Distribution

A distribution where the tail is longer on the right side of the peak, indicating that most data points are on the left.

Interquartile Range

A measure of statistical dispersion, represented by the difference between the 25th and 75th percentiles of a dataset.

Median

The middle value in a dataset when it is arranged in ascending or descending order, or the average of the two middle values if the dataset has an even number of observations.