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Geography Stuff

More Geo Stuff Guess what?

Amazing Facts About

Geography

And many more…GEO FACTS

Differentiate between a State and a Nation-State

Give examples..

.Characteristics of a state: sovereignty,

recognized borders, population

Nation-state: a state (see above) that has a homogenous ethnic make-up.

Ex. Japan, Denmark

Name each shape of

state..

Why would a country want a proruption??

.

To reach something…. A natural resource (river, ocean, etc)

What are the 3 types of borders

separating states?Give an example

1.Cultural (religion, ethnicity, language)

2.Physical (mountains, river, desert)

3.Geometric (line of latitude, straight line)

Describe what a microstate is,

using an example

“a microstate is a very very very small state/country.”

Examples: Monaco, Vatican City, Singapore,

etc.

What is this supranational organization? Is it

economic or military?

Or not

Mercosur: economic

What is this supranational organization? Is it economic or

military?

NAFTA

economic

What is this supranational organization? Is it economic or military?

currency=Euro

European Unioneconomic

What are these 2 supranational organizations? economic or

military?

MILITARYblue=NATO

red=Warsaw Pact (no longer together since

end of cold war)

Name the 3 World Cities

London, Tokyo, New York

Differentiate, clearly, between bulk-gaining and bulk-reducing industries

bulk- gaining: final product weighs MORE than input

(cars, manufactured goods, bottling)

bulk-reducing: final product weighs LESS than input

(iron ore, copper)

Name the 2 most populated countries on earth

China and India

Is this a PRIMARY, SECONDARY, TERTIARY, or

QUATERNARY industry?

.

SECONDARY

Is this a PRIMARY, SECONDARY, TERTIARY, or QUATERNARY

industry?

PRIMARY

Give an example of the SAME JOB using animate and inanimate power

Animate= people or animal power

Inanimate= power by machines

What in the world is a

MILKSHED???

Area around a city where milk is produced and

provided for the community

(without spoilage)

Give facts about the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd agricultural

revolutions

1st= neolithic (invention of ag)

2nd = during the IR (subsistencecommercial

farming

3rd= 20th century (science/geneticsGreen

Revolution

Give an example of OUTSOURCING

Clothing as part of the New International Division of Labor:

Cotton grown in USA,

T-shirts made in Bangladesh, T-shirts sold all over

Company HQ in Los Angeles

Name the 2 types of agriculture done in a

DRY/ARID climate in an MDC and an LDC??

MDC= cattle ranching

LDC= pastoral nomadism

Differentiate with examples…..

Renewable and Nonrenewable

energy---

Renewable: energy that will

be replaced in a lifetime (water, wind, solar,biomass)

Nonrenewable: energy that will NOT be replaced in a lifetime, or a millenium

(fossil fuels)

Which population pyramid would be an LDC and why?

LDC because with so many young people, doubling time will be low.

…

what is TFR?

Is it HIGH or LOW in LDC’s??

Total Fertility Rate – average # of children a woman will have in

her lifeHIGH IN LDC’sLOW in MDC’s

MDC or LDC??HIGH GDI

what’s GDI?

Gender Development Index-compares development levels of countries between MALES and FEMALEs

High numbers indicate = for womenMDC’s

Low numbers indicate less= for women LDC’s

Define!Range and Thresholdclearly and precisely

Range= maximum distance customers will travel for

your business.

Threshold= minimum number of customers needed

to support your business

What is URBAN SPRAWL?? and

How does it differ in the USA and in Europe?

The uncontrolled spread of development

Europe, esp UK, is more mindful in planning for maintaining the countryside

by incorporating GREENBELTS