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: don’t; 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 world’s 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
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