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Out of the given options, religious affiliation is the main unifying factor for most people living in southwest Asia.
<u>Explanation</u>:
- All the countries of the middle east or southwest Asia are predominantly Muslim countries with the worlds highest concentration of Muslim population.
- In all the countries of the middle east, Islam is the official religion of the states and is backed and promoted by the governments.
- In countries like Saudi Arabia, it is mandatory for an individual to be Muslim to officially be a citizen of Saudi Arabia.
A region's vegetation is LEAST likely to affect the preservation of folk culture.
That is because the presence of vegetation in a given land, while it is featured in the local people's culture (represented in their pictorial arts or in their cuisine, for example), does not necessarily endanger the <u>preservation</u> of the culture as a whole.
However, if the economy and/or the agriculture are reliant on this type of vegetation, a change in the vegetation can have direct consequences on these activities. Similarly, if a plant is important in the people's diet, they are more likely to gather around the areas where the plant grows (distribution of population). And if the plant is less available, the population may stop thriving, reproduce less, and maybe emigrate (size of population).
Answer:The term cryosphere is used to describe the frozen part of the hydrosphere, such as glaciers and ice caps.
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