The poverty line is defined as . a. the income level below which 10 percent of the American people live. b. three times the annual cost of a thrifty food budget. c. the annual cost of all goods and services that a person can reasonably be expected to want. d. the percentage of homeless people. e. the income level below which 20 percent of the American people live.

Option b=> three times the annual cost of a thrifty food budget for an urban family of four.

Explanation:

In the United States of America or any country in the world, there is a need for the government to know the poverty line of citizens in the country so as to know how to prepare or create something to reduce the rate of poverty in the country.

The term "poverty line'' is also referred to as poverty threshold. The poverty line shows the point or level of income that one has to have in order to cater for their need because people that falls below the

poverty line find it difficult to cater for their needs.

"The poverty line is defined as three times the annual cost of a thrifty food budget for an urban family of four.''

b. three times the annual cost of a thrifty food budget for an urban family of four.

Explanation:

The poverty threshold or poverty limit or poverty line or breadline is referred to as the estimated level of income needed for one to have the basic necessities of life. It is also the minimum level of income considered adequate or enough in a particular country. Poverty line can be calculated by adding up the total cost of all essential resources that an adult consumes in one year. From the above the poverty line is estimated by multiplyung 3 times the food budget of of an urban family of four.

all cities have a governor

all cities are in states or provnies then country

all cities have people

difference

some are rich

some are poor

some are average

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)