The answer for this would be FASTER. Compared to the past, the rates of soil erosion at present is faster. This is due to the increasing activities of humans that affected the quality of the soil. For example, deforestation. Because people have been occupying space now, they had to cut more trees and this contributes to soil erosion. Hope this helps.
I believe the answer is: B. A culture complex
culture complex refers to a group of people with different cultural background, but they somehow united because they love one same thing. In a basketball match, all people in the stadium come from wide variety of cultural background, but they gather together for the love of basketball.
6437. fraction of the terms in a normal distribution have z-scores between 2.41 and 0.39
States are good for United Regions that share similar culture and religion such as UAE- United Arab Emirates, UK- United Kingdom, USA- United States of America etc.