All of the Following Are True of India's Resource and Environmental

question 53

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true of India's resource and environmental problems except

• A)India has 17% of world's people, but only 2.3 % of world's land resources
• B)about one-half of India's cropland is degraded
• C)about two-thirds of its water is seriously polluted
• D)India has about 15% of the world's forests
• E)sanitation services are often inadequate

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Definitions:

Constriction

The act of narrowing, tightening, or compressing, often referring to muscles, blood vessels, or airways.

Iris

The colored part of the eye that surrounds the pupil and controls the amount of light entering the eye by adjusting the size of the pupil.

Ganglion Cells

Type of neurons found in the retina that receive visual information from photoreceptors via intermediate bipolar cells and transmit it to the brain.

Optic Nerve

An optic nerve that carries sight data from the retina directly to the brain.