What Is One Effect of Modern Agricultural Practices

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Multiple Choice

What is one effect of modern agricultural practices? 

• A) increase in genetic diversity through use of monocultures 
• B) prevention of soil erosion and desertification 
• C) benefits to human health from drinking groundwater with nitrates 
• D) contamination of recreational waters with livestock wastes

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Definitions:

Marginal Cost Curves

Graphs that depict the cost of producing one additional unit of a good or service, typically showing how costs vary with production volume.

Short-run

A time frame in which at least one factor of production is fixed, limiting adjustments to production levels.

Economic Profits

The difference between a firm's total revenues and its total economic costs, where economic costs include both explicit and implicit costs.

Perfectly Competitive

In a perfectly competitive market, there are many buyers and sellers, the products are homogenous, and no single entity can influence the market price.