Unit 26
The "blue economy" is this:
What is how people find ways to create income from the sea
This is the fraction of the world's fresh water the Amazon River contains
What is one-fifth
This is the tallest waterfall in the world
What is Angel Falls
This is the definition of demography
What is the study of the earth's human population
This is any variety of a language that distinguishes one group from another
What is dialect
Cuba is located where all of the following come together EXCEPT:
(Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Gulf of Mexico)
What is the Adriatic Sea
This is the highest navigable lake in the world
What is Lake Titicaca
This is the longest mountain range in the world
What is the Andes
During the twentieth century, the world population changed from predominantly _______ to predominantly ________
What is rural and urban
Otto von Bismarck supposedly said this was the single most important political fact of his day
What is that North American spoke English
What is the Cayman Trench
Bolivia lost this as a result of the War of the Pacific
What is it's Pacific coast area
This is another name for the Islas Malvinas
What is the Falkland Islands
A country's annual growth is made up of these two main statistics
What are net natural increase and net immigration
This is transportation infrastructure
What is what people use to travel
Cuba is this amount of miles from the United States
What is 90 miles
The Amazon covers this percentage of Brazil
What is 60 percent
This is the chain of mountain ranges that stretches from the top of North America to the bottom of South America
What is the American Cordillera
These are the two most common ways of breaking down population numbers
What are age group and gender
This is an example of an NGO
(United Nations, United States, Doctors Without Borders, US Congress)
What is Doctors Without Borders
This is the official name of storms we usually call hurricanes
What is tropical cyclones
This lake lies on the border between what two countries
What is Bolivia and Peru
These two countries fought over the Islas Malvinas in 1982
What is Great Britain and Argentina
This is when experts believe that the earth's population reached one billion people
What is around 1800
This is an example of an IGO
(International Red Cross, NATO, US Congress, World Wildlife Fund for Nature)