Factors Affecting Climate | Climate Regions | World Population | Gapminder | Random ;) |
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What are the low latitudes?
Receives direct sunlight year round.
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What is Tropical Wet?
Nearest the equator.
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What is Asia?
The continent with the most people living on it.
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What is Africa?
The continent that is lagging behind the rest.
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What is Gross Domestic Product?
GDP stands for...
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What is higher elevations?
Have thinner air, which is the reason it gets colder and harder to breathe as you go up the mountain.
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What is Humid Continental?
Where we live. Great for FARMING!
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What is growth rate?
Difference between an areas birth rate and death rate.
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What is more wealth?
Higher GDP = ...
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What are the doldrums?
Winds in the low/mid-latitudes closest to the equator.
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What is the equator?
Cold water moves towards...
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What is Mediterranean?
Where Greece and Rome are found.
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What is demography?
The study of population using statistics to understand growth and distribution.
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What is geographic luck/resources?
The reason some continents are really rich and others are really poor.
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What is larger population?
Larger bubbles in Gapminder represent...
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What is the rain shadow effect?
Causes one side of a mountain to be green and the other to be dry.
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What is Humid Subtropical?
Florida is in this climate region.
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What is migration?
Movement of people from place to place.
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What is medicine?
The reason life expectancy increases as GDP increases.
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What is El Nino?
Causes a lot of rain and strong storms here, while the other half of the world gets really hot and dry.
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What is the Polar Easterlies?
Name of the winds in the high latitudes.
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What is Marine West Coast?
Influenced by the presence of mountains.
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What is high population density?
Crowded; urban.
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What is inequalities?
The term for countries that are really rich while others are really poor.
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What is Tropical Dry?
Climate region where savannas containing lions and cheetahs are found.
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