Which of the Following Statements About Shifting Cultivation Is True

question 56

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about shifting cultivation is true?

• A) It is typically associated with the use of draft animals.
• B) It cannot support permanent villages.
• C) It requires irrigation.
• D) It requires cultivators to change plots of land, with the fallowing durations varying in different societies.
• E) It relies extensively on chemical fertilizers.

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Definitions:

Box and Whisker Plot

A graphical representation used in statistics to display the distribution of datasets. It shows the median, quartiles, and possible outliers in the data.

Five-number Summary

A descriptive statistic that provides a quick overview of a dataset through five key numbers: minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.

Symmetric

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First Quartile

The middle number between the smallest number and the median of the dataset, dividing the data set into lower 25% and upper 75%.