Answer:
A. people wrongly accused others who, as a result, were convicted with little or no evidence of wrong doing
Explanation:
Joseph McCarthy was a Senator representing Wisconsin who made accusations between 1950 to 1954 that some people within the government were supporters of Communism. This caused a scare as there was already distrust in the economy about communists and the Soviet Union. He even wrote to the President promoting this accusation.
This bears a great semblance to the Salem witch trials were a lot of people were accused of being witches and some even convicted, when in reality, the accusations were false.
Answer:
The answers to the questions based on the passage attached are given below:
Explanation:
1) The definition that contains an assertion which might require verification using another source is an aerosol. So, the correct answer is Option A.
2) This passage's information is organized in the alphabetical order. So, the right answer is Option A.
3) A colorless, odorless, insecticide that has harmful effects on most animals is DDT. The right option is A.
4) One of the environmentally damaging effects of "drift-net fishing" is over-harvesting and waste of large populations of non-commercial marine species. The correct option is D.
5) An ecological unit comprised of complex communities and their specific environments is an ecosystem. So, the right option is D.
Latin is a romance language, meaning it is the basis for many other languages.
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