Geography Final

What is the industry in the desert

Mining

Explain the significance of the Columbian exchange:

Brought new things to America, horses, ideas, languages, cultures

Emigrant

Exiting a country, leaving a country Ex: People leaving Mexico

How did railroads change America

Freed us from dependency of Europe

Functional:

A central place and the surrounding area linked to it, like Dallas, Ft/Worth Highways, Subway System

Immigrant:

Incoming movement, going into a country E: People coming into the USA

Cuyahoga River is famous for:

catching on fire for being too polluted

R:

regions

Spatial Inequality:

the unequal distribution of wealth or resources in a geographic area Ex: mansions next to slums

slums

where poor people live, cardboard house or flimsy material, poor conditions, ex: no clean water

Subsistence Farming:

Farming only what you need to eat with little chance of surplus (extra food) ex: poor farmers must resort to subsistence Farming because they cannot afford a lot of seeds or don not have lots of seeds

What animals live in the Atacama Desert

Humbolt Penguins and Guanaco llama

Urbanization:

People moving to the city, cities expand

Pull Factor:

Pulls you into a place, jobs, nice weather ex: Texas had better conditions for Hurricane Katrina Victims this was a pull factor

Push Factor:

Pushes out, makes you want to leave Ex: war, natural disasters, Hurricane Katrina was push factor

Perceptual:

Region define by popular feeling and images rather than objective data like Hollywood, Bible belt, Land of Opportunity

official geography definition

The study of the Earth and the people that live on it.

Explain the climate in the shaded area: Equator area

Topics, there is warm weather because of the latitude

Bio Diversity:

Variety of plants an animals in an area Ex: the rain forest has lots of animals and plants

Regions:

area of common characteristics

Americanization:

beliefs and customs that come form the American society, spreads to the world. Ex: McDonalds in Japan

L:

location

Why did the Ancient empires fall

no gun powder, no immunity to European diseases

P:

place

Explain the significance of the Suez and Panama Canal

to shorten trace routes

sustainable development:

using resources in ways that meet the needs of people today without hurting the ability of future generations ex: using Solar Energy, Recycling, reusing materials

most invasive in the great lakes species arrive by

water

M:

movement

E:

environment

Washington D.C. is located at 39N/77W. This is an example of _____________________

Absolute location

What is the Driest desert in the world:

Atacama desert

Haves and the Have Nots

Rich & Poor

Formal:

Something that can be touched, The gulf coast, beaches, corn belt, crops, silicon valley, technology

Human Characteristic

Something that is human made, Ex; Iphone, hoover dam, houses

Physical Characteristic

Something that occur naturally, ex: rivers, mountains, animals, hurricane

Common languages spoken in Latin America:

Spanish and Portuguese

Nazcas:

famous for geoglyphs, and aqueducts

the great lakes were formed by

glaciers

H:

human

What kind of problems does Urbanization lead to

increased crime, poverty, lack of jobs

Aztec:

lived in Central Mexico, Capitol Tenochtitlan was in middle of lake

Incans

lived in the Andes Mountain, famous ruins in Machu Picchu, Built Terraces

Mayan:

lived in the Yucatan Peninsula, most advance, Mayans were scattered (no central location) took Spanish 170 years to conquer