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GDP
Gross Domestic Product |
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| - the total value of the goods and services produced in a country |
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IMF
International Monetary Fund - |
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| -gives loans to developing countries |
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UNICEF
United Nations Children's Fund |
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| -helps children in developing countries |
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WHO
World Health Organization |
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| -develops health programs around the world |
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CIDA
Canadian International Development Agency |
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| Canadian government helping developing countries |
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NGOs
non-governmental organization |
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| organizations NOT run by governments that help people around the world |
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| a scale to rank how developed a country is - includes birth rate, death rate, education, etc |
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| roads, transportation, communications - all the things that make a city or country work |
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country with high standard of living - industrialized
examples Canada, USA |
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country with low standard of living - country just becoming industrialized
example Afghanistan |
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companies that operate all around the world
examples Coca Cola, Exxon |
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| one country giving money to another |
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| disease that spreads all around the world |
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| when different countries group together to help a country in need |
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| a country only gives money if the other countries do what it says |
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| towns made of rough shacks |
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| things that push people to leave their home country (war, poverty, etc) |
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| things that pull people towards a new country (employment, democracy, peace etc) |
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| city that does things that help the environment, like bike routes, growing food locally, using solar power, etc etc |
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| all the areas of earth that sustain life - land, sea, air |
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| famous book about how chemicals are destroying nature |
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| countries joined together to find a way to work towards a more sustainable future |
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| an underground water supply, like an underground lake or well |
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| layer of earth's atmosphere that protects us from UV radiation - currently has holes in it due to CCFs |
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| sun's radiation that causes skin cancer - blocked by the ozone layer |
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| fuels that come from the decomposition of animals and plants over millions of years - coal, oil |
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| when lands that used to be forests or farms become deserts |
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| the number of different life forms in an ecosystem |
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| forests in northern Canada - like Ontario - lots of deciduous trees,animals like bears, moose, beaver |
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| contract that many countries signed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - Canada was reluctant to sign |
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