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What form of power comes from the sun?
Solar Power
What are the four major geographical regions found in Africa?
Desert, Savannah, semiarid, and tropical rainforest.
What type of resource are diamonds and gold?
Nonrenewable
What is the most likely change people would make if gas prices doubled?
Spend less on entertainment.
Where is Great Wall?
China
What type of energy is made from corn, animal waste, and human waste
Biomass energy
What is a renewable resource?
Give examples
Corn, livestock,trees, solar,wind, hydroelectric.
Where are the Himalayan Mountains?
Between Nepal and China
What attracts foreign companies in the United States?
Highly educated workforce, large number of consumers
What is free trade?
Trade without paying tariffs.
Why did China create the Three Gorges Dam
Provide clean energy
What is the largest desert in Africa?
Sahara
WHat policy in China has helped the most to increase their gross in domestic product?
SEZs
List some items made using oil.
Makeup, shingles, plastic nylon
What does a nations rate of natural increase indicate?
How fast the population is growing each year.
What are advantages of the Three Gorges Dam?
Provides energy without air pollution, flood control, safer boat travel.
What is Chinas goal with the one child policy?
Zero population growth
Define Outsourcing
Hiring someone outside a company to do a job once done by people inside the company
What type of farming is cut into steps into the mountain side?
Terrace farming
What are some of the main issues facing many African countries today?
Civil War, poverty, and disease
A country that spend a lot of money on education and health care is likely to have a higher _____ ranking?
HDI(human development index.)
WHat are India's comparative advantages over other countries attracting IT jobs?
English speakers, IT education, low wage workers
What has contributed to widespread poverty in Africa?
Desertification, disease, and war
What is a multinational corporation?
A business that operates all over the world.
Why is oil considered a nonrenewable resource?
It takes millions of years to form.