All categories

3 years ago

Describe how desertification has impacted the environment of Latin America

1 answer:

7 0

Desertification is the cancer of the earth,” Argentine geographer Elena Abraham told IPS. “It is a process of degradation that does not manifest itself in spectacular ways but furtively advances, and by the time it is visible there is nothing to be done, and people have to move away, in search of an alternative.”

You might be interested in

Match each structure on the left with the corresponding function on the right. Group of answer choices Chemically digests food,

Ad libitum [116K]

Answer:

1. Chemically digests food, absorbs nutrients and minerals from food - Small intestine

2. Breaks down and physically digests food - Stomach

3. Metabolizes nutrients, detoxifies blood, makes bile - Liver

4. Stores and concentrates bile - Gallbladder

5. Removes waste products and excess fluid - Kidney

6. Filtering structure of kidney - Nephron

7. Produces eggs and reproductive hormones - Ovary

8. Produces sperm and reproductive hormone - Testis

Explanation:

This question is asking to correctly match certain digestive organs with their respective function. The organs and their function are as follows:

- Small intestine: Small intestine is the major organ that digests food chemically, and also absorbs nutrients and minerals from food.

- Stomach: This breaks down and physically digests food.

- Liver is responsible for metabolizing nutrients, detoxification of blood, and making of bile.

- Gall bladder is a greenish yellow organ responsible for the storage and concentration of the bile produced by the liver.

- Kidney is the major excretory organ of the body, which removes waste products and excess fluid from the body.

- Nephrons are numerous filtering structure of the kidney.

- Ovary is the female reproductive organ that produces the eggs/ova and other reproductive hormone like oestrogen.

- Testis is the male reproductive organ that produces the sperm and other reproductive hormone like testosterone etc.

7 0

3 years ago

Looking at the Punnett square, what are the possible genotypes and frequencies

Rom4ik [11]

Answer:

50% or 1/2 of the children will be heterozygous.

50% or 1/2 of the children will be recessive hom0zygotic.

Explanation:

7 0

3 years ago

Some birds are known as honey guides because they may be followed by humans to wild beehives. When the humans take honey from th

zloy xaker [14]

Answer:mutualism

Explanation:

In a mutualistic relation,both organisms involved benefit from the activities of each other. The benefits may be nourishment,shelter, protection etc.

In the above example,the birds are known to guide humans by responding to specific calls made by the human. They guide humans to beehives and then in return gets to feed on left over honey. Both the bird and human benefits by getting nourishment.

Mutualism is unlike parasitism where one of the organism involved benefits and the other organisms Is most likely harmed. It is also not commensalism, where one organism benefits and the other neither benefits nor is harmed

3 0

3 years ago

Two ways water travels from land to enter the ocean

Vesna [10]

-Water evaporates and condenses into clouds, then the clouds are blown over the ocean, and it rains.
-Water from a mountain flows down and into a river. The river empties into an ocean.

7 0

3 years ago

What does it mean to germinate? A. To get sick B. To grow C. To drink D. To fly

olya-2409 [2.1K]

Answer:

B. To Grow

Learn more about Germination at the following answer:

brainly.com/question/19016674

#LearnWithBrainly

5 0

3 years ago

Read 2 more answers