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World geo exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a formal region | A region defined by a common characteristics such as production of a product |
| What is a functional region | A central place in the surrounding territories link to it |
| What is a perceptual region | A region defined by popular feelings and images rather than by objective data |
| Longitude | Angular distance of a place east to west |
| Latitude | Angular distance north to south |
| GPS | A navigational system that can be Determined absolute location by using satellites and receivers on earth |
| GIS | Computer programs that process and organize details about places on earth and integrate those details with satellite images and other pieces of information |
| GOES | Geostationary operational environmental satellite improves hurricane thunderstorm and tornado warning lead time |
| NOAA | National oceanic and atmospheric administration. Predict changes in climate weather oceans and coasts shares this information with others |
| Polar | Regions of the planet that surround the north and south poles |
| Temperate | Moderate climate not too hot or too cold |
| Tropical | Very hot and humid |
| Factors affecting climate | Ocean currents distance from sea distance from equator direction of wind |
| Biome | Complex community characterized by plant and animal species |
| Tundra | Avast flattery list Arctic region of Europe Asia and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen |
| Tiaga | The sometimes swampy coniferous Forest of high northern latitudes on Waze so bored take for us determine by conifers |
| Tropical forest | Rain forest with no dry season |
| Grassland | A large open area of country covered with grass especially one used for grazing |
| Desert | A dry barren area of land especially one covered with Sam this characteristically waterless and without a vegetation |
| Weathering | Break down of rocks soil and minerals |
| Erosion | Removing said a man from one location and transporting to another |
| Three agents of erosion | Water wind and ice |
| Tectonic plates and movement | Oceanic and continental crust convergent divergent transform |
| Continental drift | Gradual movement of the continents across the earth surface overtime |
| More developed countries | Country that has developed economy and advance technology |
| Less developed countries | A non-industrialized or third world country doesnât have advanced technology or economy |
| Newly industrialized countries | Countries whose economies have not yet reached a developed country status |
| Primary | And industry involved in the extraction and collection of natural resources such as fishing farm and copper and timber |
| Secondary | Involves the processing of raw materials turning timber into furniture |
| Tertiary | Production and sale Overall good purchase and sale of finished goods |
| Quaternary | Way to describe a knowledge base parts of the economy includes info technology media and research |
| Monarchy | A form of government with the monarchy at the head undivided rule or absolute sovereignty by a single person |
| Democracy | A system of government by the whole population of all the eligible members of the state typically through elected representatives |
| Constitutional monarchy | A form of monarchy in which the sovereign exercises authority in accordance with a written or unwritten constitution |
| Oligarchy | A small group of people having control of the country organization or institution |
| Dictatorship | Government by dictator |
| Characteristics of culture | A complex hole of a society including everything that gives a society its identity learned shared symbolic integrated and dynamic |
| Command economy | And economy in which production investment prices in incomes are determined centrally by government |
| Free enterprise | An economic system in which private business operates and competition and largely free of state control |
| Market economy | Economic system in which the decisions regarding investments production and distribution are guided by the price signals created by the force of supply and demand |
| Capitalism | And economical And political system in which a countries trade and industryâs are controlled by private owners for profit rather than by the state |
| Mixed economy | An economic system combining private and public in a price |
| Traditional economy | Economic systems in which traditions customs and believes help shape the goods and services the economy produces |
| Subsistence agriculture | A self-sufficiency farming system in which the farmers focus on growing enough food to feed themselves and their families |
| GDP | Gross domestic product total value of goods produced and services provided in the country during one year |
| GNP | Gross national product total value of goods produced and services provided by country during one year equal to GDP plus net income from foreign invest |
| Literacy rate | Percentage of population age 15 years and over who can read and write |
| Per capita income | Average income earning per person and given area over one year |
| Delta | Forms from deposition of settlement carried by a river |
| How does a Delta form | Deposition of sediment by river the flow leaves its mouth and enters a slower moving water occurs when river enters an ocean |
| Effects of large bodies of water on climate | Water heats and cools more slowly than land in summer coastal regions will stay cooler and winter warmer |
| Colonization | One country takes control of another country the action or process of settling on mowing in establishing control over the indigenous people of an area |
| Industrialization | The development of industries in a country or region |
| Urbanization | The process of making an area more urban |
| Globalization | The increasing economic integration and independence of the worlds nation |
| Urban sprawl | Spreading of urban developments or undeveloped land near a city |
| Continental divide | Separates the water from the Pacific ocean from the water there runs towards Atlantic and Arctic Ocean |
| Acid rain | Precipitation caring large amount of dissolved acid which kills wildlife in damages buildings for some crops |
| Greenhouse effect | The capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat there by warning there |
| El Nino | A periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temps in the mid Pacific region |
| Maritime/Atlantic | Not many people they speak English they have a wet and cold climate their economic activities include forestry shipping tourism and fishing |
| Core | Most Canadians live here they have a cool climate they speak English Quebec in French their economic activities include farming factories forestry mining |
| Prairie provinces | Not many people they speak English they have a cold and hot climate their economic activities include growing wheat cattle ranching oil did the land of grains and trains |
| British Columbia | British/Chinese population they speak English they have a marine west climate their economic activities include minerals shipping tourism lumber and fishing |
| Nunavut | Negative language arts taken sub arctic climate donât have an official government and they are the newest territory 1991 subsistence oil |
| Quebec | Oldest European city people speak French here |
| Multiculturalism | Range of cultural and ethnic diversity within the population of the country |
| Sun belt | A mild climate region in the southern in south western portions of the United States |
| Rustbelt | A sharp decline an industrial work left many factories abandon causing rust from exposure to the elements |
| Wheat belt | The part of the North American great plains where we eat is the most important crop the bell extends along a north-south ask is more than 500 miles from Alberta to central Texas |
| Bible belt | And in formal region in the south eastern and south central us in which protestantism plays a strong role |
| NAFTA | North American free trade agreement between the countries of North America Canada US and Mexico and it reduces in illuminates tear of so many good straight it along to three countries |
| Triangular trade | A pattern of trade develop between England the three colonies Africa in the west Indies |
| Columbian exchange | The exchange of crops ideas and diseases between the new and old world |
| Mercosur | Purpose is to promote free trade the movement of goods people in currency trading zone between Brazil Argentina Uruguay in Paraguay |
| European Union | Are unique economic and political union between 28 EU countries that together cover of the continent |
| Polders | Low lying area from which sea water has been drained to create new land |
| North Atlantic drift | Powerful warm western boundary current within the Atlantic ocean that extends the golf stream Northeast |
| Mistral | Strong Northern wind from the Appalachian mountains that can bring cold air to southern France |
| Renaissance | And people started talking interest in the learning of ancient Greece and Roman rebirth of learning |
| Reformation | European movement aimed at reforming the believes and practices of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Industrial revolution | Beginning in the 1700s the rapid major change in the economy with the introduction of power driven machinery |
| Irish potato famine | What is a period of mass starvation disease in immigration in Ireland between 1845 and1849 |
| Berlin wall | Well that divided East and West Berlin because of the different government |
| Division of Europe after World War II | Many of the countries in the west return to the same government and borders they had before war however Germany was divided is controlled by Russia western controlled by allies |
| Subarctic | Long usually very cold winters short cool to mild summers |
| Mediterranean | Mild winters are very warm summers |
| Humid continental | Warm to hot in Austin humid summers cold winters |
| Marine West Coast | Mild summers and mild winters |
| Highland | Cold snow you wind usually at an altitude of 10,000 feet or more |
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