1700/death Test Answers – Flashcards
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| Megalopolis |
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| USA |
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| Randstad |
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| Netherlands |
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| Chernobyl |
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| Ukaine |
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| West Siberia |
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| Russia |
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| Three Gorges Dam |
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| PRC |
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| Love Canal |
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| USA |
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| Corn Belt |
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| USA |
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| Pamapas |
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| Argentina |
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| Fertile Triangle |
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| Russia |
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| Long March |
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| PRC |
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| Nunavut |
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| Canada |
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| Bhopal |
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| India |
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| GNP |
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| Gross National Product (usually per capita) |
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| NAFTA |
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| North American Free Trade Agreement |
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| GDP |
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| Gross Domestic Product |
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| MSA |
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| Metropolitan Statistical Area |
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| OPEC |
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| Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries |
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| CBD |
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| Central Business District |
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| WTO |
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| World Trade Organization |
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| IMF |
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| International Monetary Fund |
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| GDI |
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| gender-related development index |
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| GEM |
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| gender empowerment measure |
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| 4 parts to GDI |
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| income, literacy, education, life expectancy |
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| 4 asian dragons |
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| s. korea, singapore, taiwan, hong kong |
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| 4 dragons trading policy |
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| no natural resources- produced clothing and electronics at low labor costs & inespensive resale |
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| arabian peninsula |
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| saudi arabia, oman, bahrain, united arab emirates, kuwait |
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| trade problems |
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| 1. uneven resource distr. 2. market stagnation. 3. increased dependence on MDC |
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| FDI |
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| foreign direct invest - one country invests in another |
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| IBRD |
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| international band of reconstruction and development |
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| fair trade |
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| products made and traded according to guide lines that protect workers and small businesses in LDCs |
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| great taiga (russian forest) climate |
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| DFC/DFD |
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| USSR |
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| 15 countries - russia, belarus, kazakhstan, estonia, latvia, ukraine, lithuania, armenia, azerbaijan, moldova, georgia, armenia, uzbekistan, turkmenistan, kyrgyztan, tajikistan |
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| highest HDI |
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| 1. w. europe, 2. anglo-america, 3. japan, 4. s. pacific, 5. e. europe |
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| lower HDI |
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| 1. latin america, 2. e. asia, 3. middle east, 4. s/e asia, 5. s. asia, 6. sub-saharan africa |
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| GEM |
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| gender empowerment movement |
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| developed latin america |
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| uruguay, chile, argentina, bahamas |
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| undeveloped latin america |
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| bolivia, haiti |
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| climate of rainforest in Brazil |
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| AF - tropical rainforest |
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| latifundia |
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| few rich ppl have enormous farms |
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| minifundia |
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| most poor people have small farms |
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| maquiladora |
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| US factories bult near mexican border to take advantage of low wage workers |
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| primary sector |
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| farming, mining, fishing, forestry |
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| secondary sector |
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| manufacturers |
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| teritary sector |
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| retail, banking, law, edu. |
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| demographic indicators |
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| life expectancy |
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| gender empowerment movement |
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| compares men to women in economic and political decision making |
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| world bank |
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| provides loans in order to reduce poverty in LDCs |
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| lake near chicago |
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| michigan |
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| near duluth |
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| superior |
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| near cleveland |
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| erie |
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| us meglaopolis |
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| boston, new york city, philadelphia, baltimore, washington |
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| river near manaus |
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| amazon |
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| near cairo |
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| nile |
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| near kinshasa |
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| congo |
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| near tombouctou |
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| niger |
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| 5 largest islands |
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| cuba, haiti, dominican republic, jamaica, bahamas |
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| 2 us territories in n/e caribbean |
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| puerto rico, US virgin islands |
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| us possession in cuba |
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| guantanamo bay |
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| tectonic feature of eastern africa |
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| great rift valley |
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| coal production leaders |
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| PRC, USA |
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| natural gas leaders |
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| Russia USA |
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| asian disappearing sea |
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| aral sea |
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| vegetative planting |
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| reproduction of plants by cloning |
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| seed agriculture |
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| reproduction of plants by annual planting |
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| subsistence farming |
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| farming enough food for family to eat. found in LDCs |
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| commercial farming |
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| MDCs - production of food for sale |
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| 2 regions most involved in farming |
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sub-saharan africa and east asia |
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| shifting cultivation |
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| clear land by burning/slashing, then using soil for few years until its fallow and then move again |
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| pastoral nomadism |
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| subsistence farming thru herding domestic animals |
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| intensive subsistence agriculture |
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| must work more intensively to survive off of land |
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| leading rice production countries |
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| China, India |
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| wet rice production |
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| plow land, plant rice on dry land, move to sawah - water - harvest by hand with knife |
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| plantation |
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| large farm specializing in 1or 2 crops |
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| crop rotation |
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| rotate fields that crops grow on, so dont exhaust soil |
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| milkshed |
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| ring around an area that milk can be provided w/o spoiling |
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| 2 main corn producers |
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| USA, PRC |
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| range wars |
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| gov sold land that ranchers let the cattle graze on. ranchers tried to drive out farmers. |
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| horticulture |
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| growing of fruits, veggies, and flowers |
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| truc farming |
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| commercial gardening of fruit and veggies b/c of long growing season |
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| von thunen |
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| farmer considers what to farm based on cost of land and cost of transportation. |
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| sustainable agriculture |
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| agricultural practice that perserves and enhances environmental quality |
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| fallow |
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| letting soil/earth regrow and regain nutrients |
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| golden triangle |
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| produces opium - myanmar, vietnam,laos, thailand |
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| desertification |
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| farmland abandoned for lack of water |
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| green revolution |
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| production/diffusion of more productive agricultural practices - higher yield seeds and fertilizers |
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| cultural revolution |
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| PRC |
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| rotterdam |
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| netherlands |
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| silicon valley |
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| usa |
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| st. lawrence river |
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| canada |
