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
