Geography study
5 themes of Geography:
Long: up and down; Lat: sideways
Steppe: temperate, semiarid areas of treeless grassland in the mid latitudes of Europe and Asia
Hardin: dont; help them too much
Singer: Food needs to be distributed correctly
DTM: 4 stages, where countries Develop
Thomas Malthus: Population growth is exp., Food production is only linear.
Country with most people: Asia
Highest life expectancy: Japan
Results of China-1 child: male dominance; kill or abandon girls
6 month disease: Tuberculosis
Disease where mosquito is the vector: Malaria
Spanish flu killed millions of Native Americans
Sub-Saharan Africa has most AID/HIV cases
Uganda lowered HIV rates via Abstinence and condom use
Bird Flu == H5N1
Short Answer: Iran and Azerbaijan
Disputed land in south, border disputes
Oil pipeline disputes too
Caspian sea has oil beneath, near Azerbaijan
Over-grazing, drought, and changing climate causes desertification
Over-cropping, overgrazing, and using bad farming methods induce land degradation
Most deforestation: central/south America
~3 billion living without clean water
Most fresh water in glaciers and groundwater, a little in permafrost
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries: incl. Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Algeria, Libya, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran
Middle east has about 50% of the worlds oil
United states uses about 20million barrels of oil per day
1997 in Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto Protocol is trying to get countries to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions
Alternative energy: Solar, Hyrdo, Wind
Natural Gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel