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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| show | Tropic Of Cancer, Deserts at 30 degrees north and south latitude, often near cold ocean currents, arid climate (<10 inches of pric.)
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| Af | show 🗑
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| Aw | show 🗑
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| show | Tropic of Capricorn
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| show | Antarctic peninsula, antarctic circle, tundra, short, cold summer, small plants, on permafrost
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| A | show 🗑
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| show | Hot, very rainy and very dry season(Monsoon)
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| show | Dry(Hot,warm, or cool) determined by precipitation first and temperature second
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| show | Sub-Tropical(warm, rainy or dry)
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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 | Complex climate changes with rising altitude in mountains (all climate types possible for the altitude), also called vertical or altitudinal zone, vegetation varies resulting in an uneven distribution of agriculture
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| continental crust | show 🗑
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| Oceanic crust | show 🗑
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| Convergent | show 🗑
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| show | plate boundary that moves apart, spreading. Two types: oceanic divergence, and continental divergence
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| asthenosphere | show 🗑
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| show | One area of oceanic crust slips below another area of oceanic material, and the resulting molten material rises and forms linear volcanic island arcs
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| oceanic divergence | show 🗑
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| continental divergence | show 🗑
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| show | 3 climate controls; latitude, land and water, and altitude
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| Latitude | show 🗑
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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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| Climate Region | show 🗑
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| Global warming | show 🗑
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| Human population distribution | show 🗑
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| population equation | show 🗑
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| Total Fertility rate | show 🗑
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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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| show | <2.1
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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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| which growth is better for a countries economy? | show 🗑
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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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| Urban Lifestyles | show 🗑
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| show | 50%
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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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| Decolonialism | show 🗑
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| The core | show 🗑
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| What percent of the world population controls all of the wealth? | show 🗑
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| show | former colonies and a few other ethnographic areas (Ethiopia) never dominated by colonial powers, developing economies, dependent on primary sector economies.
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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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| What was the first part of the Americas fully colonized? | show 🗑
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| What is the number one place of export? | show 🗑
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| 20 years of globalization resulted in what 3 emergence specialized activities? | show 🗑
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| Where is the biggest offshore banking site? | show 🗑
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| show | 60%, over urbanized cities is the norm
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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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| Greater Antilles | show 🗑
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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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| show | are lowlands of continents with swampy coasts
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| What is the climate and vegetation like on the Caribbean? | show 🗑
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| What is Creole (Caribbean) Identity? | show 🗑
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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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| show | more skilled and educated emigrate
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| show | occurs toward old colonial powers and the US and Canada.
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| What was the first Caribbean nation to industrialize? | show 🗑
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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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| What percent of employment does tourism account for in the Caribbean? | show 🗑
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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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| show | 75%
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| show | Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo
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| What is a social challenge of Latin America? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Plate tectonic processes create most of the region's landforms.
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| Why are highlands in Latin America economically important for? | show 🗑
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| Where is the worlds driest desert? | show 🗑
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| Tierra Nevada | show 🗑
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| Tierra Helada | show 🗑
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| show | Up to the treeline, Hardy crops (Barley and potatoes), Highest zone in Central America
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| show | Most populated zone, common in Central America, coffee, corn, wheat
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| Tierra Caliente | show 🗑
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| Grasification | show 🗑
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| Main characteristics of Latin America | show 🗑
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| show | central cities (downtown)
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| show | 460 million Latin Americans (compared to 300 million for the US); 170 Million Brazilians, 100 million Mexicans; 40 million each in Columbia and Argentina.
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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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