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A landform is created when a segment of Earth’s crust is displaced downward between parallel tensional faults or segments of the crust that border it rides upward along parallel compressional faults.
Created after millions of years of erosion from the Colorado River and its tributaries, this Arizona landmark is visited by millions of tourists each year.
A 1,242-mile (1,9988 km) chain of more than 2,500 reefs and islands along Australia’s northeast coast, containing some 400 species of coral.
A struggle between the British empire and the Russian empire for control of central Asia in the 19th century.
An earthquake in 1923 in japan killed an estimated 140,000 people and left the city of Tokyo in ruins.
A group of five freshwater lakes of central North America between the united states and Canada. The lakes are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and superior.
A vast grassland of central North America is largely treeless and ascends to 4,000 feet above sea level.
The result of tectonic processes is a broad, steep-walled trough extending from the Zambezi Valley in southern Africa northward to the Red Sea and the Jordan River valley in southwestern Asia.
In what is now South Africa, a series of northward migrations in the 1830s by which groups of Boers, primarily from the eastern part of the Cape Colony, sought to find new interior grazing lands and establish new political units beyond British reach.
A city established in what is now Zimbabwe by the Shona around 1000. It became the capital of a thriving gold-trading area.
Location: Southeast Europe Official name: Hellenic Republic Formation (date of independence / date current borders were established): 1829 / 1947 Capital city: Athens Population: 11.2 million / 222 people per sq mile (86 people per sq km) Total land area: 50,942 square miles (131,940 square km) Language(s) spoken: Greek (official language), Turkish, Macedonian, Albanian Main …
An agricultural program launched by scientists in the 1960s developed higher-yielding grain varieties and improved food production by incorporating new farming techniques.
The layer of gases released by the burning of coal and petroleum traps solar energy, causing global temperature to increase.
Location: West Indies Official name: Grenada Formation (date of independence / date current borders were established): 1974 / 1974 Capital city: St. George’s Population: 108,419 / 828 people per sq mile (319 people per sq km) Total land area: 131 square miles (340 square km) Language(s) spoken: English (official language), English Creole Main religions: Roman …
The value of goods and services produced in a country in a given year. It does not include net income earned outside the country.
(GNP) The value of goods and services produced internally in a given country during a stated year plus the value resulting from transactions abroad.
The water is held under the earth’s surface, often in and around the pores of rock.
The Group of 10 (G-10) includes the IMF’s wealthiest members who provide most of the money to be loaned and act as the informal steering committee.
The Group of 11 (G-11) was established in 2006 to narrow the income gap with the world’s richest nations.
The Group of 15 (G-15) was established in September 1989 to promote economic cooperation among developing nations and to act as the main political organ for the Nonaligned Movement.