Define birth rate, death rate, total fertility rate, infant mortality rate, and life expectancy. Determine whether they are high or low in LDCs vs. MDCs.

City 24-hr average yearly temperature in ºc total yearly precipitation in mm minsk, belarus (former ussr) (53° n, 27° e) shanghai, china (31° n, 121° e) baltimore city, usa (39° n, 76° w) helsinki, finland (60° n, 24° e) banff, canada (51° n, 115° w) kuala lumpur, malaysia (3° n 101° e) 26.5 2393.6 buenos aires, argentina (34° s, 58° w) jakarta, indonesia (6° s, 106° e) questions 1. what factor contributes most to the warm climate of kuala lumpur? 2. banff and minsk are located at similar latitudes. what could account for banff’s average yearly temperature being lower than minsk’s? 3. which city’s climate is most similar to jakarta, baltimore or kuala lumpur? explain your answer. 4. shanghai and buenos aires have located thousands of miles apart and in different hemispheres, yet their climates are similar. what reasoning could explain this?

Mexico city is an example of how humans alter their environment because it was a. one of the world’s largest cities b. built on drained and filled lake beds c. built after conquest by the spanish d. once the capital of the aztec empire

Why did the belgian parliament pass laws to decentralize its government? a. to increase trade with neighboring luxembourg b. to decrease the political power enjoyed by the flemish c. to enable belgium to join the european union d. to reduce tensions between belgium's two main ethnic groups