Mapping
The name for 0 degrees latitude
What is the equator?
The Earths crust Relies on these plates to hold the continents together?
What are tectonic plates?
The main catch in the Atlantic fishery
What is Cod?
Births per 1000 people in one year
What is the birth rate?
The world is usually divided in this amount of continents
What is 7?
The number of timezones in the world
What is 24?
The 3 elements of the fire triangle
What is heat source, fuel, and oxygen?
The type of rain that kills trees
What is acid rain?
The rule used to calculate the doubling rate of a population
What is the rule of 70?
A country that is a nation that has a low level of development and material well being
What is a developing country?
The number of timezones in Canada
What is 6?
The device that measures the motion of the ground, including seismic waves
What is a seismograph?
The name for when you cut all of the trees in an area
The time period after WW II where there was a strong increase in births in North America
What was the baby boom?
What is a democracy?
What is a topographic map?
A "ring" that follows the tectonic plates around the pacific ocean?
The percentage of people employed in agriculture
What is 20%?
The difference between net immigration and net emigration
What is Net Migration?
A name for countries with high HDI's
The disadvantages of the Mercator Projection
What is distance and size?
On average a hurricane produces the same amount of energy in one day as this amount of atomic bombs
What are bottom feeders, pelagic fish, and crustaceans & molluscs.
The type of migration that occurs when people move from Mabitoba to a different province
What is External Migration?
(The fraction) of the world's countries that are designated as developing countries.
What are 2/3?