Why are so many volcanoes found on the Ring of Fire around the margin of the Pacific Ocean? a. Many hotspots occur there. b. Many subduction zones occur there. c. The climate is hot there, favoring volcano formation. d. The seafloor is spreading extremely fast there.

Match your vocabulary word to its definition. 1. emigration 2. immigration 3. migration 4. overpopulation 5. sustainable development 6. under population 7. unsustainable development 8. urbanization the movement from one place to another the number of people exceeds the available natural resources in an area leaving one's homeland to settle in a new place the increase in the population of a city the movement of people to a new country the ability to meet current needs without reducing the ability to meet future needs resources being used up at a faster rate than they can be replenished birth rate insufficient to replace the existing population

Why did the belgian parliament pass laws to decentralize its government? a. to increase trade with neighboring luxembourg b. to decrease the political power enjoyed by the flemish c. to enable belgium to join the european union d. to reduce tensions between belgium's two main ethnic groups

What is the relationship between groundwater and aquifers?