GEOG 1003 : Geography Exam 2
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Geography exam 2: how many people in total live in south asia. 1. 65 billion: the average gni ppp per capita in south asia. 3101: understand the importance of the monsoon to this region. Inventive cropping systems, agricultural biodiversity, social networks, and water storage: know the climate map of south asia, know different agricultural techniques, such as terracing, intercropping, and transhumance, the impact of the green revolution. Increased productivity, increased dependency on purchased farming products, decreased native seed diversity, and exhausted soils and water supplies: the implications of climate change in the region. Bangladesh: inundating villages, drowning people and livestock, and ruining crops. Pakistan: levees and embankments increase the risk of bigger floods: arsenic contamination bangladesh. In the 1970s unicef built tube wells in the ground and the people started drinking the water. Brought lots of income, but caused deforestation and poor working conditions: the rise of the grameen bank.
