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Poverty Is Correlated with Race, Age and Family Composition

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Poverty is correlated with race, age and family composition.


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Arc

A continuous portion of a circle or other curved line, or in geological terms, a curved series of volcanic islands that form above a subducting plate.

Tectonic Terrane

A fault-bounded body of rock that has a different geologic history than adjacent regions.

Horst and Graben

Geological structures where a horst is a raised block of the earth's crust bordered by faults, and a graben is a lowered block of the earth's crust bordered by parallel faults.

Forearc Basin

A sedimentary basin that lies between the volcanic arc and the trench in a convergent plate boundary.

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