289053390 | ____ was right! Everyone would survive, if we shared food equally | Engles | |
289053391 | America imports a lot of ____ when we can't grow them (strawberries, bananas) | exotics | |
289053392 | Green Revolution | biogenetics | |
289053393 | ___ of the worlds population is malnurished. | 1/6 | |
289053394 | 3 causes of malnurishment | distribution problems, inability to pay for it, tradition | |
289053395 | If a child has a protein difiency in their first 3 years, it will affect ____. | their mental and physical growth | |
289053396 | Calone Consumption problems | too little or empty | |
289053397 | The majority of the world are ____. | subsistance farmers | |
289053398 | Teenagers in the U.S. do not consume proper foods which leads to ____. | hidden hunger | |
289053399 | population 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 | |
289053400 | Human Geo started from ____. | Medical Geo | |
289053401 | Dies before turning 1. Measured in thousands. | Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) | |
289053402 | Disease that can be transmitted | Contagious diseases | |
289053403 | women who have a lot of babies, mother is malnurished, weaning, women is exhausted, diseased, or poorly educated. | Causes of IMR | |
289053404 | Malnurishment, diherria, poor sanitation, and dehydration | main ways babies die | |
289053405 | __/__ or ___ % of the world population lacks clean drinking water and waste disposals | 1/5 or 20% | |
289053406 | U.S. is _ . _ IMR | 6.4 | |
289053407 | In most of the world, ____ is going up. | Life Expectincy | |
289053408 | U.S. life expectincy: men- __ women- __ | men- 78 and women- 83 | |
289053409 | World life expectincy: men- __ women- __ | men- 71 and women-79 | |
289053410 | A person who survives childhood has a chance of living ____ than the expectincy. | longer | |
289053411 | from foriegn organisms that multiply in your body | Infectious diseases | |
289053412 | comes over a long period of time | chronic or degenerative diseases | |
289053413 | have the disease geneticly | genetic or inherited diseases | |
289053414 | anything that makes you sick is called an ___. | agent | |
289053415 | Humans become __ when they are infected | host | |
289053416 | a large amount of host in one place | resivoir | |
289053417 | get a disease from physical contact (person to person) | nonvectored | |
289053418 | transferred by intermediate host (person to desk to person) | vectored | |
289053419 | mosquitos or infected water also called vehichles | vectors | |
289053420 | examples of nonvectored diseases | ring worm, cholora, AIDS | |
289053421 | examples of vectored diseases | Malaria, yellow fever, sleeping sickness, and influenza | |
289053422 | leading cause of death in the U.S., heart disease, cancer, stroke | Chronic diseases | |
289053423 | metabolic problems (genetic disease- ex. allergic to milk), genetic mutations, drugs, radiation, natural | Genetic diseases | |
289053424 | different characteristics | genetic make-up | |
289053425 | inherited quality | gene | |
289053426 | the more ___ you have, the darker you are | melanin | |
289053427 | Chinatown, Little Italy, Little Tokyo, Little Havana | Ethnic enclaves in the U.S. | |
289053428 | same ethnic groups | ethnos | |
289053429 | came to america, lose your culture, and become americanized | melting pot | |
289270996 | killed off all life | Dwyka Ice Age | |
289270997 | sent debris into atmosphere, thought to have killed dinosaurs, marine life, killed many species, caused tsunamis | meteor | |
289270998 | formed the Great Lakes | Wisconsin Glaciation | |
289270999 | Mt. Toba erupted; caused biggest threat to human kind. | Sumatra | |
289271000 | added to the Little Ice Age by throwing ash into the atmosphere | Thira (Santorini) 1650 B.C. | |
289271001 | increased social distruptions in Europe, couldnt raise crops= food shortage, helped bring bubonic plague into Europe, led to 2nd agricultural revolution. | Little Ice Age | |
289271002 | year without summer | 1816 | |
289271003 | K/T impact | meteorite hitting | |
289271004 | renewable resourse | water | |
289271005 | water cycle | hydrologic cycle | |
289271006 | areas of ground water | aquifiers | |
289701872 | 4th largest lake but now nonexisting | Aral Sea | |
289701873 | #1 commodity is ___. | water | |
289701874 | found in Indonesia; when it erupted, it increased the world temp. by 7 degrees. | Crackatoa | |
289701875 | carbons that make holes in the atmosphere | greenhouse gases | |
289701876 | over grazing land turns it into a desert | desertification | |
289701877 | _____ expanded 270,000 sq. mi. | Sahara Desert | |
289701878 | stopped overgrazing and planted trees | to stop deforestation | |
289701879 | solid/landfills, toxic wastes, radioactive wastes | landfills or waste disposals | |
289701880 | new species | biodiversity | |
289701881 | evil toxic drops of water | acid rain | |
289701882 | combustable engines | energy (fossil fuels) | |
289710298 | A 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 gender | Epidemic | |
289710299 | The 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 community | Endemic | |
289710300 | A disease or condition occurring throughout the population of a country, a people or the world. | Pandemic |
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