Unit Eight- China Vocabulary Flashcards
Three Gorges Dam
The World’s largest hydroelectric dam; on the Yangtze River
LEDC
Less Economically Developed Country: little education/ industrialization, high birth rates compared to working ages, shorter life expectancy
MEDC
More Economically Developed Country: Emphasis on education and industrialization, low birth rates compared to working ages, longer life expectancy
Doubling Time Formula
70/(percent growth rate)
4 Stages of Demographic Transition
High Fluctuating, Early Expanding, Late Expanding, Low Fluctuating
Greenhouse Gas
Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere (CO2, CH4, NO, H2O)
Insolation
Incoming Solar Radiation, primairily visible as light
Replacement Rate
The amount of children that a couple needs to have in their reproductive years, in order to effectively replace themselves
Fertility Rate
the ratio of annual births to women a given age (or a given age group) to a general population of women
Stages of Coal Formation in Order
Plant Remains, Peat, Lignite, Bituminous Coal (sedamentary), Anthracite Coal (metamorphic)
Nonrenewable Resource
A resource used up more quickly than it can be replenished (ie coal, natural gas)
Renewable Resource
A resource that replenished itself faster than it can be used up (ie tides, wind, solar)
NOx
Nitrous Oxide, atmospheric pollutant from industry, smelting, and metalworking
SOx
Sulfur Oxide, pollutant that contributes to acid rain, from volcanoes and fossil fuels
Thermal Inversion
Layer in the atmosphere in which air temperature increases with height
