Drainage basins in Japan tend to be small: the five largest rivers are the Tone, the Ishikari, the Kitami, the Kiso and the Shinano. 11% of Japan's is arable and over two thirds (68%) is forested or woodlands. ... To the north, a complex system of forested mountain ranges divided by the precipitous but fertile Ping, Yom, Wang and Nan river valleys, rises to a elevation of 2,594 metres at Doi Inthanon. ... In the north and north-eastern provinces, the River Mekong forms the border with Laos. 34% of Thailand's land and 30% is forested. ... The rich alluvial soil along the Chao...

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The fertilizer is then washing down into rivers and streams and emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. ... "uneducated people have more penurious children and the whole lack of family planning is due to the stark absence of basic education.... "Developing nations and their patriarchs will tell you that owing to an infernally high infant mortality rate and deaths of mothers, they have extra children – just in case." (Kulkarni) Having health care systems that provide nations who have a high infant death rate will decrease the need for one family to have so many children.  ...

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By the beginning of the Christian era it had reached 250 million, and by the year 1650 CE up to half a billion(Internet Source)Reproduction resulted un having children which were perfect for doing farmwork, collecting dowry and starting family. ... These are places where people need children for work or if they don't want kids they have no way of getting contraception or to be informed about it, thus making the population grow at an alarming rate. ... DDT is a very active, broad-spectrum pesticide, particularly effective against beetles, moths and butterflies, flies, and mosquitoes, it c...

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The main river systems the Rewa, Nauva, Sigatoka, and Ba all have their source in the central Mountain area. ... The total fertility rate based in 2002 is 2.83 children born/women, with an infant mortality rate of 13.72 deaths/1,000live births in 2002. ...

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We care about Australia and want to pass our heritage to our children and their children. ... The Premier of NSW, Bob Carr was right when he said, "the nation can't handle more people....Sydney is bursting at the seams....the debate ought to be about carrying capacity of the continent - a continent that has lousy soils, fragile vegetation and depleted and degraded river systems". ... The preferential admission of children of migrants to universities under the unfair LOTE (Language Other Than English) bonus ensures Australian children will be disadvantaged and the government will...

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Human Geography Revision Web Notes overpopulation - where too many people live in an area for the resources available, resulting in a low standard of living accessibility - how easy it is to get to a settlement central businessdistrict (CBD) - the centre of a city which usually has departmental stores, offices, main bus and railway stations and entertainments commuter village - a village next to a city; many people travel, or commute, from the village to work in the city conurbation - a very large built up area formed when towns and cities join together dispersed - a scattered pattern of...

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