Exam 1
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show | Tropical Rainforest (hot with rainy and dry seasons(dry winter)),equator
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EF | show 🗑
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D | show 🗑
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show | Meditterranean, rare climate of coasts near cold ocean currents, Dry summer, wet winter, specialty crops that will only grow in that climate (California-olives)
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CF | show 🗑
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BW | show 🗑
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show | Equator, no dry season (hot and rainy)
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Aw | show 🗑
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Bw | show 🗑
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show | Antarctic peninsula, antarctic circle, tundra, short, cold summer, small plants, on permafrost
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show | Tropical (hot and Rainy)
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Am | show 🗑
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BS | show 🗑
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C | show 🗑
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show | Humid(east coasts of continents near warm ocean currents, rainy, deciduous forests, many types of crops)
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show | Marine west coast, near mixing of cold and warm ocean currents at higher altitudes, cool and rainy, temperate rain forests, rarest vegetation type-forestry with little agriculture, 265 days of rain
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show | Arctic (cold)
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continental crust | show 🗑
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Oceanic crust | show 🗑
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show | plate boundary that moves plates together and collide. 3 types oceanic to continental subduction zone, oceanic to oceanic subductions zone, and continental to continental convergence
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divergent | show 🗑
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show | plates collide as they are pushed along by convection cells in the mantle
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Oceanic to Oceanic subduction zone | show 🗑
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oceanic divergence | show 🗑
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show | occurs where rising convection currents in the asthenosphere result in areas of continent breaking apart along the divergent boundary.
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show | 3 climate controls; latitude, land and water, and altitude
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show | low latitudes nearer to the equator receive more direct sunlight than higher latitudes nearer to the poles
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Maritime | show 🗑
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show | greater variation in temperature farther away from oceans
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show | temperatures decrease with altitude (for first 10 miles), as you go up a mountain its cooler and as you come down it's warmer
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show | Is an area with average (more or less predictable) temperature and precipitation (map) characteristics, Koppen system
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show | caused by the burning of fossil fuels resulting in greenhouse gassesreleased into the atmosphere.
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Human population distribution | show 🗑
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population equation | show 🗑
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show | Average number of children women will have during their childbearing years between ages 15-45,
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show | 2.1
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show | >3.0
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show | 2.4
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TFR decreasing population | show 🗑
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show | 1.3 or below
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What percent of the population live in cities? | show 🗑
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Population Pyramids | show 🗑
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show | Slow growth, large working cohort can support smaller cohorts of children and the elderly
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show | With advances in agriculture, fewer farmers can supply more food than ever, creating rural surplus labor.
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Rural lifestyles | show 🗑
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show | create disincentives for larger families because children are seen as economic burdens in industrial labor societies where children are not significant,contributors to family income, postindustrial economies most urban
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What percent of the population is Urban? | show 🗑
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show | one city within a nation or region has a disproportionate influence on economic, political, and cultural activity, 5 to 10x larger than next biggest city
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show | population of a city grows quicker than social support services (water and power supply, housing, waste disposal) and transportation infrastructure, typical in primate cities in developing and emerging nations
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Political Identity | show 🗑
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show | cultural group protects and defends itself against infiltration by other cultural norms.
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Ethnocentrism | show 🗑
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Ethnographic Borders | show 🗑
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show | around resources like oil, metals, and farmland, and these borders were drawn without any consideration for the ethnic groups already in place.
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Colonialism | show 🗑
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show | former colonies regain political independence, economic disadvantage
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show | First to industrialize, driver of globalization, post-industrial economies which control the valuable quaternary sector of the global economy.
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What percent of the world population controls all of the wealth? | show 🗑
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Periphery | show 🗑
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show | merging or industrial economies (China), or former colonial powers that never kept pace with economic development in the core (Portugal), dependent on investment and information technology from the core,have manufacturing (secondary) sector economies.
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show | Caribbean, natives mostly extinct
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What is the number one place of export? | show 🗑
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show | tourism, assembly plants, and offshore banking.
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Where is the biggest offshore banking site? | show 🗑
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In the Caribbean what percent of it is Urban? | show 🗑
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show | Havana,San Juan, Port-au-Prince, and Santo Domingo
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show | HIV infection
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What are some environmental challenges of the Caribbean? | show 🗑
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show | remnant pieces of continents separated from North America by tectonic movement ex. Cuba, Haiti
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show | small volcanic islands resulting from a subduction zone along the Caribbean Plate ex. virgin islands, Granada
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Rimland Nations | show 🗑
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What is the climate and vegetation like on the Caribbean? | show 🗑
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show | blend of Amerindian, African, and European cultural traditions.
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show | Creole Identity, Matriarchal family, religions, languages, and the arts
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show | the main languages are Spanish (24
million), French (8 million), English (6 million) and
Dutch (1/2 million)
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Brain Drain | show 🗑
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Out Migration | show 🗑
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show | Puerto Rico
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Why is the Caribbean an attractive place for transnational corporate factories? | show 🗑
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show | direct foreign investment from core countries like the US, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, and Europe. $3 a day
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show | located in several island nations, focus on secrecy and zero taxation
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show | 30%,
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show | foreign exchange
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How many people speak Spanish or portuguese in Latin America? | show 🗑
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What percent of Latin America is Urban? | show 🗑
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show | Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo
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show | Has the biggest gap between rich and poor
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What percent of the population in Latin America is under 15 years old? | show 🗑
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show | Tropical deforestation in the Amazon Basin and in Central America, the worst air quality in the world (Mexico city)
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Topography | show 🗑
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show | reserves of valuable minerals, rich volcanic soils, catchment of rainfall supplying agriculture along rivers and irrigation water in dry areas,
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Where is the worlds driest desert? | show 🗑
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Tierra Nevada | show 🗑
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show | Cold, Barren, sheep grazing
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Tierra Fria | show 🗑
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show | Most populated zone, common in Central America, coffee, corn, wheat
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show | Hot, tropical, coastal, tropical rain forest, tropical agriculture (Bananas,sugar)
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show | clearing forest to create cattle pasture
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Main characteristics of Latin America | show 🗑
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Where is the most desirable location for high income residents? | show 🗑
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What are the population sizes in Latin America? | show 🗑
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show | Aztec/Maya, Inca 13 million, additional 25 million lived in various other smaller cultures
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show | 90% or 40 million, mostly from disease
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