Imagine That You Are a Physician at a Local Hospital

question 53

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you are a physician at a local hospital in America. How would climate change impact your work?

• A)Climate change would have no impact on your work.
• B)You may notice the occurrence of diseases that are not normally observed in America (e.g., malaria).
• C)You may notice that some of your new patients have parasites not normally observed in America.
• D)Answers B and C are both correct.

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Syntactic Stage

The phase in language development in which children begin to understand and use the rules of sentence structure and grammar.

Speech Sounds

The basic units of sound (phonemes) used in languages to encode and communicate meanings.

Syntactic Stage

A phase in language development in which a child begins to grasp grammatical structures and rules.

Babbling Stage

A stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant begins to produce sounds of speech, often in repetitive phonetic patterns.