The Migration of Large Numbers of People into Latin America's

question 27

Multiple Choice

The migration of large numbers of people into Latin America's cities has contributed to

• A) recent improvements in industrialization as the labor pool has grown.
• B) a clearer demarcation between those who remain in the isolated countryside and those who have moved to the cities.
• C) a scarcity of farm workers that makes it difficult to raise enough food to feed everyone, including those who have migrated to urban areas.
• D) alienation among formerly close family units, as young people become exposed to life in the large cities and can no longer relate to their families back on the farms.
• E) a growing middle class that craves the latest technological gadgets.

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Water Table

The level below which the ground is completely saturated with water, marking the boundary between the area's unsaturated soil and its aquifer.

Overpumping

Pumping of groundwater at a rate that causes severe lowering of the water table in the aquifer or other detrimental effects.

Horizontal

Describes a direction parallel to the ground or the horizon; at 90 degrees to the vertical.

Groundwater

Water present beneath the Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.