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GEO Bowl 2012

GEO Bowl 2012. Top Ten U.S. Exports. Civilian Aircraft Semiconductors Passenger Cars Pharmaceutical Preparations Automotive Accessories Other Industrial Machines Fuel oil Organic Chemicals Telecommunication Plastic Materials. Top Ten U.S. Imports. Crude oil Passenger Cars

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GEO Bowl 2012

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  1. GEO Bowl 2012

  2. Top Ten U.S. Exports • Civilian Aircraft • Semiconductors • Passenger Cars • Pharmaceutical Preparations • Automotive Accessories • Other Industrial Machines • Fuel oil • Organic Chemicals • Telecommunication • Plastic Materials

  3. Top Ten U.S. Imports • Crude oil • Passenger Cars • Medicinal Preparations • Automotive Accessories • Other Household Goods • Computer Accessories • Petroleum Products • Cotton Apparel • Telecommunications Equipment • Video Equipment

  4. 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

  5. Top U.S. Export to… • 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

  6. 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 %

  7. Top Exporting Countries • China • Germany • US • Japan • France • South Korea • Netherlands • Italy • Russia • UK

  8. 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

  9. Top Ports- US • Los Angeles • Long Beach • New York-NJ • Georgia • Virginia • Houston • Oakland • South Carolina • Tacoma • Seattle

  10. 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.

  11. The Ogallala Aquifer part of the High Plains Aquifer System • 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

  12. 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: • 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

  13. ISS • Current Mission & Crew • Expedition 33 • Soyuz TMA-05M • Launch: July 14, 2012 • Docking: July 17, 2012 • Landing: November 18, 2012 • Soyuz TMA-06M • Launch: October 23, 2012 • Docking: October 25, 2012 • 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 EvgenyTarelkin, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and NASA astronaut Kevin Ford

  14. ISS Moscow Mission Control Center is the primary Russian facility for the control of Russian human spaceflight activities and operates the station’s Russian segment 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. The BaikonurCosmodrome 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

  15. Summit of the Americas • 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: • 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?

  16. 2012 Olympics • 2012 Summer Games- London, England • 2014 Winter Games- Sochi, Russia • 2016 Summer Games- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • 2012 Euro Cup- Poland & Ukraine

  17. 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: • U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens • U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith • U.S. embassy security personnel Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods. • Two other Americans and seven Libyans were also injured

  18. 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.

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