Many cultures and religions have customs which deal with the way they use the land. for example, in judaism, it is required that a field be left fallow (unplanted) every seventh year. what is one beneficial effect of customs like this? a) they prevent the land from being overused. b) they cause less competition among farmers. c) they make the land more valuable to farmers. d) they force people to farm more recklessly at other times.

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. in an experiment, dr. travis examined the effects of calcium intake on osteoporosis, a condition that causes an increased risk of bone fractures. the amount of calcium is variable. the risk of bone fractures .

Bisphenol a (often called bpa) is a chemical found in products that people use every day, from water bottles to food containers to children's toys. unfortunately, bpa leaches out of its many products and makes its way into our bodies. what are the health effects of bpa exposure? ongoing research is finding that elevated exposure to bpa can affect a wide variety of developmental and physiological processes, but one of the first studies of bpa's health effects came about because of a simple mistake in the lab. at a laboratory at case western reserve university in 1998, geneticist patricia hunt was making a routine check of her female lab mice. as she extracted and examined developing eggs from the ovaries, she began to wonder what had gone wrong. she noticed that many of the eggs showed problems with their chromosomes, and some had irregular amounts of genetic material, which can lead to miscarriages and birth defects in mammals. she learned that a lab assistant had mistakenly washed the plastic mouse cages and water bottles with a harsh soap, releasing bpa from the plastic. knowing that bpa is an endocrine disruptor, a chemical that can enter organisms and mimic hormones, hunt set out to discover whether it had adversely affected her mice.

Which statement names a physical property of wood? wood does not rustwood can burnwood can rotwood is softer than coal