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| Port-au-Prince Haiti date |
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| Port-au-Prince Haiti magnitude |
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92,000 - 230,000 believed dead
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| Port-au-Prince Haiti fatality numbers |
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*$7.8 Billion Economic Loss
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Port-au-Prince Haiti Economic Loss
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| Magnitude 8.8 OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE fatalities |
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*$30 Billion in Economic Losses
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OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE Economic Losses
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1/5 of Pakistan is Underwater
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____ of Pakistan is Underwater
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Human Casualties: 1781+, Pakistan Floods
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| Pakistan Floods casualities |
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Economic Loss:
~$43 Billion |
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| Pakistan Floods Economic Loss |
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Human species ‘began’ approximately 160,000 years ago, with a few thousand people
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Human species ‘began’ approximately ____ years ago, with a few thousand people
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Human population has grown to over 6.9 billion people in 2011
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Human population has grown to over ___ billion people in 2011
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For most of human history, our population was kept steady according to how much food could be produced in an average year.
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For most of human history, our population was kept steady according to ___ could be produced in an average year.
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Improvements in agriculture between 8000 and 2000 years ago caused the human population to grow to about 200 million people.
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Improvements in agriculture between ___ and ___ years ago caused the human population to grow to about 200 million people.
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| Bubonic Plague: 1346 - 1350 |
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Claimed 100,000,000 lives,
25,000,000 in Europe alone
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Reduced population of Europe by nearly 1/3
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| Bubonic plague reduced Europe's population by nearly __ |
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By 1750, population ~800 million people
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By 1750, population ___ million people
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By the end of 2011, projected population ~7 billion
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| By the end of 2011, projected population ___ |
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Doubling time = 70/Growth rate
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| Rule of Seventy: Doubling time = _/_ |
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Population Reference Bureau estimates world population growth rates are dropping
From 1.8% in 1990 to 1.2% in 2008
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Population Reference Bureau estimates world population growth rates are dropping
From __% in 1990 to __% in 2008
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Solar radiation:
43% visible wavelengths
49% near-infrared wavelengths
7% ultraviolet wavelengths
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Solar radiation:
__% visible wavelengths
__% near-infrared wavelengths
__% ultraviolet wavelengths
Short wavelength |
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Sun’s energy:
30% reflected back to space as short wavelengths (albedo)
47% absorbed as heat
23% evaporates water and begins hydrologic cycle
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Sun’s energy:
__% reflected back to space as short wavelengths (albedo)
__% absorbed as heat
__% evaporates water and begins hydrologic cycle
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Inner core is solid and 2,450 km in diameter
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Inner core is solid and ___km in diameter
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Earth’s mantle: 2,900 km thick
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Earth’s mantle: ___ km thick
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Earth’s mantle: 83% of Earth’s volume, 67% of Earth’s mass
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Earth’s mantle: __% of Earth’s volume, __% of Earth’s mass
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Core – densities up to 16 gm/cm3
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Core – densities up to __ gm/cm3
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Mantle – densities from 5.7 to 3.3 gm/cm3
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Mantle – densities from __ to __ gm/cm3
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Continents (crust) – densities
around 2.7 gm/cm3
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Continents (crust) – densities
around __ gm/cm3
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Big Bang ~12 - 14 (15?) billion years
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Big Bang ~___billion years
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Solar System ~5 billion years
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Solar System ~__ billion years
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1915: Alfred Wegener publishes The Origin of Continents and Oceans
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____: Alfred Wegener publishes The Origin of Continents and Oceans
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By the mid 1960s, scientists were faced with a huge amount of new information that was making it very difficult to continue to argue against some kind of large scale movement of the Earth’s crust.
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By the mid ____s, scientists were faced with a huge amount of new information that was making it very difficult to continue to argue against some kind of large scale movement of the Earth’s crust.
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plate tectonics: Cycle takes on order of 250 million years
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plate tectonics: Cycle takes on order of ___ million years
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Crust under Tibetan plateau is 70 km thick, highest continental area on Earth
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Crust under Tibetan plateau is __ km thick, highest continental area on Earth
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The Great Kanto Earthquake
Tokyo & Yokohama, Japan, 1923
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The Great Kanto Earthquake
Tokyo & Yokohama, Japan, ____ (year) |
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Shaanxi Earthqake
Central China, 1556
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Shaanxi Earthqake
Central China, ____ (year) |
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less well known faults such as the Enriquillo fault…may also be potential sources of significant earthquakes and merit additional studies.”
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less well known faults such as the _____ fault…may also be potential sources of significant earthquakes and merit additional studies.”
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| Enriquillo fault in Haiti is currently capable of a Mw 7.2 earthquake |
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| Enriquillo fault in Haiti is currently capable of a Mw ___ earthquake |
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Calais and colleagues met with Haiti’s prime minister and interior minister in May 2008.
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Calais and colleagues met with Haiti’s prime minister and interior minister in May 2008.
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| Earthquake 1999 Izmit, Turkey |
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| earthquake in ___(year) Izmit, Turkey |
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Theory of Plate tectonics is < 50 years old!
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Theory of Plate tectonics is < __ years old!
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S (secondary) waves 3.6 km/sec through average continental crust, and 4.5 km/sec through upper mantle
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S (secondary) waves __ km/sec through average continental crust, and __ km/sec through upper mantle
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| 360-260 Million Years Ago |
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| Late Paleozoic Ice age date |
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| Late Paleocene Torrid (warm) age date |
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| Late Cenozoic Ice Age: date |
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