The national response framework is:
a. triggered following a declaration by the secretary of homeland security.
b. in effect at all times and applicable to all types and sizes of incidents.
c. focused on natural disasters, whereas the protection and prevention frameworks focus on technological and human-caused incidents.
d. activated only after a presidential disaster declaration.

Two grizzly bears are fighting over a fish to feed themselves. what kind of interaction is this scenario, which works as a limiting factor in the bears' survival? a. apparent competitionb. interference competitionc. exploitation competitiond. mutualism

In e. c. tolman's experiment, some rats were trained to run through mazes for standard food goals, while other rats were allowed to explore the mazes for 10 days without food goals or other rewards. later, when food rewards were placed in a box at the far end of the maze, the previously unrewarded rats reached the food box as quickly as the rewarded rats after only one or two trials. this experiment demonstrated that the rats had the ability to form of their surroundings.

The defendant, angered because a rival gang member had twice beaten him up after school, obtained a heavy lead pipe and waited in a deserted alleyway which he knew the rival took as a route home every day after school. when his enemy came walking down the alley, the defendant leapt out behind him and smashed the pipe into the victim's head, knocking him to the ground. the defendant then rolled the victim over and pounded his face with 15 to 20 heavy blows with the lead pipe, killing him. the jurisdiction defines first degree murder as murder committed with premeditation and deliberation. all other murders are defined as second degree murders. why will the defendant be convicted of first degree murder (as opposed to second degree murder)?