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Text 5B-The challenge of feeding 9 billion people
Text 5B-The challenge of feeding 9 billion people
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1
What happened with the gas prices?
price spike
drastically decreased
domestic oil
2
Which concept or problem is emphasized in the video?
salinization
desertification
soil erosion
urbanization
3
The stock market was highly
volatile
in the early part of the year. Volatile's meaning?
cultivate
likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly
connection between two things
to announce something is approaching
4
a situation in which people, businesses, etc. compete with each other for the same thing
overexploitation
rivalry
spike
herald
5
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means harvesting species from the wild at rates faster than natural populations can recover.
overexploitation
mitigation
desertification
rivalry
6
Which word means "to prepare land and grow crops on it or to grow a particular crop"?
herald
cultivate
exacerbate
constrain
7
What is your understanding of
adaptation
and
mitigation
in the video?
harming vulnerable people and impacting global warming
preparing for the impacts of global warming and reducing it
flooding and handling more water
growing competition for land and water
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What does exacerbate mean in the situation below?
likely to change suddenly
to make sth bad worse
compete with each other
connection between two things
