Chapter+Questions

=Chapter 1 Questions:= 1.New Zealand is located in the South Pacific ocean, between latitude 34'S and 47'S. It runs North to South and has mountain ranges covering most of it. Its two main islands (North and South) cover 266,200 sq km (103,735 sq miles), about the size of Japan or California and slightly larger than Great Britain. Some of the countries that are near New Zealand are Australia, Tasmania, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. New Zealand stradles the Australian and the Pacific Tectonic Plates. The collision of these islands has created two major islands( the north and south islands of New Zealand). These two islands have active volcanoes and fault systems.

2. The official language of New Zealand is Maori, but English is often spoken as well.

3. New Zealand is a MDC because the economy in New Zealand has been steadily growing. It has a fairly busy tourist season and has many things people come to see.

4. The Gross Domestic Product in New Zealand has increased at an annual rate of 0.60 percent in the last quarter. From 1987 until 2010, New Zealand's average quarterly GDP Growth was 0.57 percent which is its all time historical high of 2.70 percent in September of 1999 and a record low of -2.60 percent in March of 1991. Over the past 20 years the government has transformed New Zealand from an agrarian economy dependent on the British market access to a more industrialized, free market economy that can compete globally. This is sustainable because although there have been dips in the gains it was steadily increased and I believe will continue to do so. 5. New Zealands Ecological footprint went from 8.68 in 1999 to 5.50 in 2001. However in 2008 they had the 6th worst ecological footprint in the world. I did not find anything that said people from New Zealand suffer from affuenza but I did however find something that said people from English speaking countries like New Zealand are twice as likely to suffer from affluenza.

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