coachtorresworldgeo.weebly.com · Web viewDefine Diffusion The process by which a cultural element is transmitted across some distances from one group or individual to another. Example:

World Geography Final Review

Pg. 40

1. Define Region –

A group of places with at least one common characteristic

Pg. 41

2. What is a region?

An area with common characteristics example: The Amazon is a region be it has a common climate and the same plants and animals

3. What are the three types of Region?

Formal, Functional, Perceptual

4. Define Functional Region –

A area consist of an central place and the surrounding places affected by it

5. Give an example of Functional Region -

The DFW airport area, Kiss FM broadcasting area

6. Define Perceptual region –

An area that is defined by people’s feelings and attitudes about the area

7. Give an example of Perceptual region -

Dixie (The old south), The upper Midwest

Pg. 45

8. Define Lithosphere -

Soil, rocks, landforms, and other surface features

9. Define Atmosphere –

Layer of air, water, and other substances about the surface

10. Define biosphere –

The world of plants, animals, and other living things that occupy the land and waters of the planet.


Pg. 48

11. What is convection?

The circular movement caused when a material is heated, expands and rises, then cools and falls.

12. How is it related to plate tectonics?

Most scientists believe this causes movement in plate tectonics.

13. Define the theory of plate tectonics –

The earth’s outer shell is not one solid sheet of rock. Instead, the lithosphere is broken into a number of moving plates.

14. What are affects when tectonic plates move apart and crash into each other?

They create rift valleys, earthquakes, and volcanoes.

Pg. 54

15. Moving water creates what land from? –

Canyons

Pg. 63

16. What are the three factors that affect climate?

Elevation, latitude, location to large bodies of water

17. What happens to climate when a place is at a high elevation?

The temperature drops

18. What is the ultimate source of the earth’s climate?

The sun

Pg. 64

19. What causes the seasons?

The earth’s tilt and where the sunlight strikes in different parts of the planet more directly.


20. Define Rotation –

The movement of the earth in space which spins on its axis like a top.

Pg. 79

21. Define Deciduous Forest and list characteristics

Shed leaves during one season, stark and bare in the winter, lush and green in the summer, moderate rainfall and warm to cold temperatures

Pg. 81

22. Describe a savanna biome -

Tropical grassland and does not have many trees.

Pg. 88

23. What are reasons why the World’s population has increased dramatically in recent centuries?

Modern technology has helped with food production, and improved medical care has enabled people to live longer.

Pg. 90

24. Define Urbanization –

The growth of cities

25. Define Rural –

The countryside

26. What types of jobs are available in both rural and urban area?

Rural – farming, agriculture, Urban – Service, Manufacturing


Pg. 97

27. Define Diffusion –

The process by which a cultural element is transmitted across some distances from one group or individual to another.

Example: Spatial Diffusion = Islam extend from the Middle East to South East Asia.

28. Give an example of American Diffusion into another country.

In-n-out restaurants in Iran, American Football in Mongolia

Pg. 103

29. Define Dictatorship:

Power that is concentrated in a small group of even a single person Example: Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Ayatollah Khomeini

Pg. 104

30. Define Market Economy –

An Economic systems that gives great freedom to individuals and groups.

31. Define Command Economy –

An economic system that is controlled by a single central government and nearly all economic decisions are made by government leaders exerting authoritarian control.

32. How does a Communist economy operate?

The states own and operate all the major farms, factories, utilities and stores. Example: North Korea

Pg. 103

33. Define Traditional Economy-

An economy the exist in many rural and less developed nations, nearly al goods and services produced by people are consumed in their own family or village. Example: Cottages industries


Pg. 105

34. Define Mixed Economy -

The economic system that included a mix of traditional, command, and market economies.

35. Define Socialism –

The state government should own and run come basic and important industries, such as transportation, communication, banking, coal mining, steel industry, and oil. Example: Sweden

Pg. 109

36. Define nonrenewable resources -

Resources that cannot be replaced once they have been used.

37. Define fossil fuels, and list examples –

Nonrenewable mineral resources such as coal, oil and natural gas.

Pg. 115

38. Define – Primary economic activities, and give examples.

Economic activities that rely directly upon natural resources. – Fishing, forestry, mining, farming

Pg. 116

39. In developing nations, how many people work in agriculture?

Half

40. Define secondary economic activities –

When people use raw materials to produce or manufacture a new products of greater value.


Pg. 126

41. What county influenced many of the United States traditions of individual rights, representative government and a strong sense of democracy?

Great Britain, English

Pg. 134

42. What group has the largest amount of immigration into the Unites States and why?

Latin Americans – jobs, healthcare, opportunity

Pg. 147

43. Define Free enterprise -

Economic systems that allows individuals to own, operate, and profit from their own businesses in an open, competitive market.

Pg. 151

44. Different from 200 years ago, the majority of people in the United States today live where?

Metropolitan areas – Cities and towns

Pg. 172-173

45. Why did the population of the West grow rapidly in the mid 1800s (1849)?

The discovery of Gold otherwise known as the Gold Rush

Pg. 230

46. What is NAFTA and what did it do?

North American Free Trade Agreement, and it phased out trade barriers among Canada, Mexico, and the US.


Pg. 230-231

47. How are US (developed country) companies using maquiladoras in Mexico (developing country)?

Lower labor cost

Pg. 237

48. What strategic waterway runs through the country of Panama?

Panama Canal

Pg. 248

49. What was an effect toward the natives in the Caribbean and the rest of the Americas after the arrival of the Europeans?

The vast majority died from diseases brought by the foreigners, and other forms of cruel treatment.

Pg. 275

50. What South American Country housed the heart of the vast Inca Empire?

Peru

Pg. 438

51. Define Monotheism:

Belief in only one god. Examples: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Sikhism

Pg. 446

52. The majority of the population in the Middle East is concentrated around what?

Fresh water supplies

Pg. 498

53. Define Ayatollah:

Conservative religious leader of Iran


54. Who was the Ayatollah of Iran that took power in 1979?

Ayatollah Khomeini

Pg. 513

55. Look on the map on page 513. What ecosystems are predominating around the Equator?

Tropical Rain forest

56. What Ecosystems is predominating around the Tropic of Cancer?

Desert and Desert scrub

57. Would the culture of these areas be similar or different? And Why

These two areas house different cultures because of the physical barriers between them.

Pg. 525

58. What strategic waterway runs through Egypt?

The Suez Canal

Pg. 550

59. Define animism –

Ordinary tings of nature –the sky, rivers, trees – all contain gods or spirits.

Pg. 642

60. Looking at the religious diversity map on pg. 642, what religion is in both China and Japan?

Buddhism

Pg. 643

61. Looking at the population density on pg 643, where do most people live in China?

The Eastern half of the country


62. Looking at the climate region map on pg. 643 why would you thing it is difficult to farm in western China?

It’s too dry

Indicators of Development by Country

Country GDP per Capita

Life Expectancy

Child Mortality

Literacy Rate

Mexico $14,192 76.7 17 92.8%

Brazil $10,847 72.9 22 90%

Haiti $1,040 61.7 72 65.3%

Argentina $14,931 75.7 16 97.8%

Source: United Nations Development Program

63. Which two counties have the highest standard of living?

Mexico & Argentina

64. Which county has the lowest standard of living?

Haiti


65. What are some conclusions that can be supported by this population pyramid?

Belgium is a develop country

66. In the next 20 years, what does the government of Belgium have to prepare for?

Rising health care needs because of the high number of the aging population


67. What are some conclusions that can be supported by this population pyramid?

Haiti is not a developed country

The darker shades represent the most developed nations around the world.

68. What continents have the most develop countries?

North America and Europe


Know the flow of goods and products of the Columbian Exchange

Documents

coachtorresworldgeo.weebly.com · Web viewDefine Diffusion The process by which a cultural element is transmitted across some distances from one group or individual to another. Example: