GEO 115 Chapters 1-4 Study Guide
An element that might define a formal region is?
A common characteristic or thing
The grid system we use to determine absolute location was created by whom?
Cartographers
Ninety percent of the world's population growth occurs in which part of the world?
Developing countries of Africa, South and East Asia, and Latin America
Latitude, one element of the grid system used for absolute location, includes?
Parallels, run east-west
Researchers in which field of geography study the processes by which the physical landscape is shaped?
Physical Geography
What refers to the relationship between the distances shown on the map and the actual distances on the earth's surface?
Scale
In which stages of the Demographic Transition is the rate of natural increase (RNI) low?
Stage 1 and 4
How do the authors of your text (Diversity Amid Globalization) define globalization?
The growing interconnectedness of people and places through converging processes of economic, political and cultural change
As climate is defined in the textbook, what reflects a climatic change?
The melting of glaciers during the ice age
What is geography?
The study of our planets surface and the processes that shape it
Define plate tectonics
Theory that Earths outer shell is divided into large slabs of solid rock, called plates
Define the Demographic transition
Transition from high to low birth and death rates as a country or a region develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system