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The 1973 embargo on oil exports imposed by Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) against the United States and the Netherlands.
The Okhotsk Sea is the no. 11th contiguous open water surface on earth. It has a huge, 613,8 square mile (1,589,700 square km) area and 2,749 square feet (838 square meters) average depth. The Okhotsk Sea’s greatest known depth is 12,001 feet (3,658 meters), which can be found at 146 10 E.
A site of fossil beds in northern Tanzania, containing the most continuous known record of humanity over the past 2 million years, including fossils from 65 hominids.
A government-run by a few persons or a small group.
A country that relies on one principal export for much of its earnings.
The organization of petroleum exporting countries was established in 1960 by some oil-producing nations to coordinate policies on selling petroleum products.
Political boundaries that have a minimal political or structural impediment to easy crossing between two countries.
Ore: a mineral or rock from which a valuable metal, such as iron, gold, or copper, can be mined or extracted.
OECD – See Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC).
(OEEC) An organization created in 1948 to organize and facilitate the European response to the 1947 Marshall Plan.
A river mainly in Venezuela and part of South America’s northernmost river system.
The precipitation that results when moving airstrikes a topographic barrier, such as a mountain, is forced upward.
The dry, unpopulated inland region of Australia.
A small ship used in the lagoons of islands where pacific islanders settled.
Overfarming: exhausting the soil by growing too many crops.
Overpopulation: When population growth exceeds economic growth and results in food shortages and lack of housing.
A chemical created when burning fossil fuels react with sunlight – a form of oxygen.
Areas of depletion of ozone in Earth’s stratosphere, caused by chlorofluorocarbons.
The Pacific Ocean is the no. 1 contiguous open water surface on earth. It has a huge, 60,060,700 square mile (155,557,000 square km) area and 13,215 square feet (4,028 square meters) average depth. The Pacific Ocean’s greatest known depth is 36,198 feet (11,033 meters), which can be found at Mariana Trench.