Each Year Over 3 Million Children Experience Some Type of Maltreatment

question 9

True/False

Each year over 3 million children experience some type of maltreatment or abuse by a caregiver, although experts believe these numbers are vastly underreported.

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Definitions:

First Land Plants

Early plants that began to colonize the land over 470 million years ago, evolving adaptations to survive in terrestrial environments.

Radiometric Dating

Radiometric dating is a technique used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, by determining the relative proportions of particular radioactive isotopes present in the sample.

Isotope Decays

The process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by emitting radiation, leading to a change in its atomic number or mass.

Half-Life

Characteristic time it takes for half of a quantity of a radioisotope to decay.