Figure 55.9 -Based on Figure 55.9,what Can You Conclude About Land-Use Legacy

question 20

Multiple Choice

Figure 55.9
-Based on Figure 55.9,what can you conclude about land-use legacy in New England?

• A)Population growth has increasingly devastated the forests.
• B)A spike in lake sediments caused massive deforestation due to loss of soil nutrients.
• C)Sediment spikes correlate with massive population growth.
• D)Lake sediments reflect deforestation and despite reforestation,do not recover.
• E)All of the above answers apply.

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Definitions:

Perceptual Organization

The cognitive process by which the brain structures sensory input into meaningful patterns or objects.

Perceptual Constancy

The accurate perception of certain attributes of a distal object, such as its shape, size, and brightness, despite changes in the proximal stimulus caused by variations in our viewing circumstances.

Serial Processing

The act of handling one piece of information at a time, typically in a sequential manner.

Size Constancy

is the perceptual ability to see objects as maintaining the same size despite changes in their distance or the size of the image they cast on the retina.