GEOG 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Maquiladora, North American Free Trade Agreement, Monroe Doctrine
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1. 2 meters of rain in 48 hours on central. Fast floods and mudslides left 10,000 people dead, 20,000 missing, and 2. 5 million dependent on emergency services. Honduras had 6 million people, 2 million were affected, 1 million lost their homes. Food shortage and diminish of bananas, coffee and shrimp: the impacts of el nino the region, a periodic warming of sea-surface temperatures in the tropic pacific. High rainfall and flooding: the impacts of climate change in the region, specifically the potential of the. Amazon to become a tipping point: critical rainfall source. Higher level of carbon dioxide and droughts associated with global warming are drying the amazon. Drying, fires, and associated carbon emissions could flip the vegetation from forest to grasslands and make the area a source of emissions: the importance of the altiplano for human occupation of the region, plateau in the andes.
