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Question | Answer |
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Length of Martian year? | 687 days |
Length of Martian day? | 24.37 hours |
Earth features compared to Mars? | Death Valley, Mono Lake (CA), Channelled Seadbland (WA0, Permafrost in Siberia, Volcanoes in Hawaii |
When was Disney, Epcot, MGM, Animal Kingdom first opened? | 1971, 1982, 1988, 1998 |
images? | 1973, 1989, 1997 |
How much land cover was shifted? | 10.02 percent |
Remote sensing def? | Sensing for measurement from a distance - includes hearing seeing and smelling |
Three parts of GIS? | Line, point, area -vector or raster |
How many satellites and how many orbits? | 24 satellites and 6 orbits |
Who uses GPS and GIS? | Military, science, moving rocks, medical geography |
How many languages in Africa? | 1000 |
What are the language families? | Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Sahara, Khoisan |
why decreasing foreign debt? | inability to service it |
percent of adults with HIV? | 1/100% |
AIDS cases and deaths in Africa? (percent) | 70%, 75% |
population? | 596 million |
growth rate? | 2.6% |
Africae Clutsers of population? | Coastal West Africa, Northen Nigeria, Ethiopian Highlands, Lake Victoria Region, Interior and East Coast of South Africa |
Food Production: | Agricultue, Pastorialism, or Fishing/Huntint |
What is Pastorialism? | Animal Herding |
Major oil exporter in West Africa? | Nigeria |
Congo - 2nd largest country - ethnic groups , languages, and percent rainforest? | 250 ethnic groups, 75 languages, 1/2 rainforest |
East Africe ecnomy is subsistence because of? | railroad system |
population concentration in East Africa? | Lake Victoria and Nairobi, Kenya |
Sub-Saharan Africa - Diama Barrage on Senegal river leads to the loss of...? | 7000 tons of shrimp and fish resources |
Def of degradation? | decreases of vegetation cover or species composition |
In Sub-Saharan Africa - how many people don't have access to water? | 35% |
What is malaria caused by? | blood parasite - transmitted by mosquitos |
Guinea worm | contamintaed drinking water - grows to 1 meter |
Where does Bilharzia live? | abdominal cavity from dirty water |
Def of medical geography? | study of people's health in a spatial context |
What is GIS used for in the medical field? | to track diffusion and record impact |
Where are the Kitum Saves? | In the shadow of Mt. Elgon in Uganda |
What animals live in the save? | bats, elepants, and monkeys |
4 types of Ebola | Zaire, Sudan, Reston, and Tai |
What is Lassa transmitted from? | rodents |
When was Lassa discovered? | 1969 |
Incumbation period of lassa | 5-21 days |
symptoms of lassa | viral hemorrhagic fever |
Lassa is particularly high in what group? | pregnant women |
Treatment of lassa? | Ribavirin |
Poor pronosis of Lassa? | High Viremia, Bleeding, and Third trimester |
Number of islands in the pacific? | 20,000 |
Population breakdowm in oceania? | Australia - 19 million, New Zealand - 4 million, New Guinea - 4 million, other islands - 3 million |
Climate of Oceania? | Pyphoons and cyclones, tsunamis |
Climate of Australia | 1/3 arid and 1/3 semiarid |
Aborigines - numbers | 200,000 then to 75,000 and now to 300,000 - only 10,000 follow traditional ways |
Maoris | from South Pacific last wave fom tahiti in 1350 |
Native people of Serenteti? | Massai |
How many animals migrat? | 2 million |
What countreis in Africa does the Serentegi encompass? | Tanzania and Kenya |
Self contained eco-system? | Ngorongoro Crater |
What river do the heards need to cross? what country is it in? | Mara River in Kenya |
How many die on the river? | 1/4 million but 1/2 are born |
how long has the aborinies been around? | 30,000 |
How long in the redd? | 1,200 km |
How far the the reed extend | 100 miles |
Harem Island is operated by what university? | University of Queensland |
Incubatino period for sea turtles | 8-10 weeks |
number of ship wreacks this century on the Reef? | 1,200 |
percent of US endanged species in Hawaii? | 1/4 - 6 go exist every hour |
How many years has NGS suppoterd Goodal | 1961-1978 |
How many gants has goodall had? | 26 |