GEO Bowl 2012
Top Ten U.S. Exports
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Civilian Aircraft
Semiconductors
Passenger Cars
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Automotive Accessories
Other Industrial Machines
Fuel oil
Organic Chemicals
Telecommunication
Plastic Materials
Top Ten U.S. Imports
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Crude oil
Passenger Cars
Medicinal Preparations
Automotive Accessories
Other Household Goods
Computer Accessories
Petroleum Products
Cotton Apparel
Telecommunications Equipment
Video Equipment
Top Import From..
• Japan- Passenger Cars
• China- Sporting Goods & Toys
• Germany- Passenger Cars
• France, UK, & Italy- Medicinal Preparations
• Russia- Fuel Oil
• Brazil, Canada, & Mexico- Crude Oil
• India- Diamonds
Top U.S. Export to…
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Japan, France, UK, & Brazil- Civilian Aircraft
China- Soybeans
Germany- Passenger Cars
Russia- Meat & Poultry
India- Chemical Fertilizers
South Korea- Semiconductors
Mexico & Canada- Automotive Accessories
Switzerland- Gold
Major Export Partners
• U.S.: Canada 21.4 %, Mexico 11.7 %, China 5.6 %, Japan 5.4
%, UK 4.3 %, Germany 4.3 %
• Japan: US 20.4 %, China 15.3 %, South Korea 7.6 %
• China: US 19.1 %, Hong Kong 15.1 %, Japan 8.4 %
• Brazil: US 16.1 %, Argentina 9.2 %, China 6.8 %
• Germany: France 9.7 %, US 7.5 %, UK 7.3 %
Top Exporting Countries
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China
Germany
US
Japan
France
South Korea
Netherlands
Italy
Russia
UK
Top Ports- Foreign
• China- Shanghai, Ningbo-Zhoushan, Tianjin,
Guangzhou, Hong Kong
• South Korea- Busan
• The Netherlands- Rotterdam
• Singapore
• Japan- Tokyo
• UAE- Dubai
• Germany- Hamburg
• India- Mumbai
Top Ports- US
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Los Angeles
Long Beach
New York-NJ
Georgia
Virginia
Houston
Oakland
South Carolina
Tacoma
Seattle
Keystone XL Pipeline
• by Transcanada Corp.
• a pipeline system to transport
synthetic crude oil and diluted
bitumen ("dilbit") from the Athabasca
oil sands region in northeastern
Alberta, Canada to multiple
destinations in the United States
• refineries in Illinois
• Cushing oil distribution hub in
Oklahoma
• proposed connections to refineries
along the Gulf Coast of Texas.
The Ogallala Aquifer
part of the High Plains Aquifer System
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a vast yet shallow underground water table
aquifer located beneath the Great Plains in the
United States
One of the world's largest aquifers, it covers
an area of approximately 174,000 mi² (450,000
km²)
About 27 percent of the irrigated land in the
United States overlies this aquifer system
about 30 percent of the nation's ground water
used for irrigation
provides drinking water to 82 percent of the
people who live within the aquifer boundary
ISS
• The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable
artificial satellite in low Earth orbit
• The station has been continuously occupied since 1998
• The ISS program is a joint project between five
participating space agencies:
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NASA
the Russian Federal Space Agency
JAXA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
ESA-European Space Agency
CSA-Canadian Space Agency
• The station is serviced by Russian Soyuz spacecraft
• On 25 May 2012, Space Exploration Technologies
Corporation (or Space X) became the world's first
privately held company to send a cargo load, via the
Dragon spacecraft, to the International Space Station
ISS
• Current Mission & Crew
• Expedition 33
• Soyuz TMA-05M
o Launch: July 14, 2012
o Docking: July 17, 2012
o Landing: November 18, 2012
• Soyuz TMA-06M
o Launch: October 23, 2012
o Docking: October 25, 2012
o Landing: March 2013
from the left are NASA astronaut Sunita Williams,
commander; along with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko,
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut
Akihiko Hoshide, Russian cosmonaut Evgeny Tarelkin,
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and NASA astronaut
Kevin Ford
ISS
Mission Control Center at
NASA's Johnson Space
Center in Houston
Space Exploration
Technologies
Corporation, or SpaceX, is
an American space
transport company
headquartered in
Hawthorne, California.
Moscow Mission Control Center is the primary
Russian facility for the control of Russian human
spaceflight activities and operates the station’s
Russian segment
The Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan is
the chief launch center for both piloted and
unpiloted space vehicles. The landing site is
in a 25 mile wide zone in a wheat field in
central Kazakhstan
Summit of the Americas
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The sixth Summit of the Americas was held at Cartagena, Colombia, on 14 and
15 April 2012
The central theme of the summit was "Connecting the Americas: Partners for
Prosperity.“
The main issues at the summit's agenda was:
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the exclusion of Cuba
the legalisation of drugs to fight the War on Drugs
Argentina's sovereignty claims over the Falklands Islands.
Cuba's inclusion in the next summit was supported by all states except the United States and Canada
Where’s Obama?
2012 Olympics
• 2012 Summer Games- London,
England
• 2014 Winter Games- Sochi, Russia
• 2016 Summer Games- Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
• 2012 Euro Cup- Poland &
Ukraine
Benghazi Attack
• On September 11, 2012 in Libya, a heavily armed group
executed an attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in
Benghazi, also referred to as the Battle of Benghazi
• The attack began at night in a U.S. diplomatic compound for
the consulate, and ended early the next day at another
diplomatic compound nearby where the U.S. intelligence was
posted
• Those killed included:
o U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens
o U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith
o U.S. embassy security personnel Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
• Two other Americans and seven Libyans were also injured
Eurozone Crisis
• The European sovereign debt crisis (often referred to as the
Eurozone crisis) is an ongoing financial crisis that has made it
difficult or impossible for some countries in the euro area to
repay or re-finance their government debt without the
assistance of third parties
• June 9, 2012- Responding to increasingly urgent calls from
across Europe and the United States, Spain agreed to accept a
bailout for its cash-starved banks as European finance
ministers offered an aid package of up to $125 billion.