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289053390____ was right! Everyone would survive, if we shared food equallyEngles
289053391America imports a lot of ____ when we can't grow them (strawberries, bananas)exotics
289053392Green Revolutionbiogenetics
289053393___ of the worlds population is malnurished.1/6
2890533943 causes of malnurishmentdistribution problems, inability to pay for it, tradition
289053395If a child has a protein difiency in their first 3 years, it will affect ____.their mental and physical growth
289053396Calone Consumption problemstoo little or empty
289053397The majority of the world are ____.subsistance farmers
289053398Teenagers in the U.S. do not consume proper foods which leads to ____.hidden hunger
289053399population policy, keeping the Green Revolution, expand the farmlands, stimulate local production, encourage land reform, improve food distribution, develop alternative food sources, control overfishing, reduce meat consumption, promote social change.Mitigating the risks
289053400Human Geo started from ____.Medical Geo
289053401Dies before turning 1. Measured in thousands.Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
289053402Disease that can be transmittedContagious diseases
289053403women who have a lot of babies, mother is malnurished, weaning, women is exhausted, diseased, or poorly educated.Causes of IMR
289053404Malnurishment, diherria, poor sanitation, and dehydrationmain ways babies die
289053405__/__ or ___ % of the world population lacks clean drinking water and waste disposals1/5 or 20%
289053406U.S. is _ . _ IMR6.4
289053407In most of the world, ____ is going up.Life Expectincy
289053408U.S. life expectincy: men- __ women- __men- 78 and women- 83
289053409World life expectincy: men- __ women- __men- 71 and women-79
289053410A person who survives childhood has a chance of living ____ than the expectincy.longer
289053411from foriegn organisms that multiply in your bodyInfectious diseases
289053412comes over a long period of timechronic or degenerative diseases
289053413have the disease geneticlygenetic or inherited diseases
289053414anything that makes you sick is called an ___.agent
289053415Humans become __ when they are infectedhost
289053416a large amount of host in one placeresivoir
289053417get a disease from physical contact (person to person)nonvectored
289053418transferred by intermediate host (person to desk to person)vectored
289053419mosquitos or infected water also called vehichlesvectors
289053420examples of nonvectored diseasesring worm, cholora, AIDS
289053421examples of vectored diseasesMalaria, yellow fever, sleeping sickness, and influenza
289053422leading cause of death in the U.S., heart disease, cancer, strokeChronic diseases
289053423metabolic problems (genetic disease- ex. allergic to milk), genetic mutations, drugs, radiation, naturalGenetic diseases
289053424different characteristicsgenetic make-up
289053425inherited qualitygene
289053426the more ___ you have, the darker you aremelanin
289053427Chinatown, Little Italy, Little Tokyo, Little HavanaEthnic enclaves in the U.S.
289053428same ethnic groupsethnos
289053429came to america, lose your culture, and become americanizedmelting pot
289270996killed off all lifeDwyka Ice Age
289270997sent debris into atmosphere, thought to have killed dinosaurs, marine life, killed many species, caused tsunamismeteor
289270998formed the Great LakesWisconsin Glaciation
289270999Mt. Toba erupted; caused biggest threat to human kind.Sumatra
289271000added to the Little Ice Age by throwing ash into the atmosphereThira (Santorini) 1650 B.C.
289271001increased social distruptions in Europe, couldnt raise crops= food shortage, helped bring bubonic plague into Europe, led to 2nd agricultural revolution.Little Ice Age
289271002year without summer1816
289271003K/T impactmeteorite hitting
289271004renewable resoursewater
289271005water cyclehydrologic cycle
289271006areas of ground wateraquifiers
2897018724th largest lake but now nonexistingAral Sea
289701873#1 commodity is ___.water
289701874found in Indonesia; when it erupted, it increased the world temp. by 7 degrees.Crackatoa
289701875carbons that make holes in the atmospheregreenhouse gases
289701876over grazing land turns it into a desertdesertification
289701877_____ expanded 270,000 sq. mi.Sahara Desert
289701878stopped overgrazing and planted treesto stop deforestation
289701879solid/landfills, toxic wastes, radioactive wasteslandfills or waste disposals
289701880new speciesbiodiversity
289701881evil toxic drops of wateracid rain
289701882combustable enginesenergy (fossil fuels)
289710298A disease or condition that affects a large number of people at the same time. That spreads rapidly through a segment of a population, such as everyone in the same geograpic area, age group or genderEpidemic
289710299The expected or "normal" incidence of disease or a condition that's transmitted at the usual expected rate. An indigenous (native) disease caused by conditions that are constantly present within a communityEndemic
289710300A disease or condition occurring throughout the population of a country, a people or the world.Pandemic

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