Geography Test 1 Study Guide

Lorenz

1. The 45-degree line of the ______ curve represents perfect equality, where equal portions of the population control equal amounts of income.

Formal, Functional, Vernacular/Perception

3 types of regions:

Primary

A major obstacle that developing countries often face is the problem of being stuck as a producer of raw materials, or stuck in an economy dominated by the _______ sector.

10%

According to a 2008 European Commission study, what percentage of the world's population is more than two days travel time from a city of 50,000 people or more?

Digital Divide

Although people in remote locations have gained connection through Internet access and mobile phone usage, there is a notable gap between the average bandwidth and accessibility, creating what is referred to as the:

More Than 40

Approximately, how many landlocked countries are in the world?

Agricultural, Industrial, Service

As a country or area develops, the nature of the economy changes or progresses through a series of stages. Select the correct order of these stages.

During the Age of Exploration, stretching from the 1400s to the 1900s, which of the following regions was the focal point for global trade and exchange of culture?

Atlantic

Long term (years)

Climate

A physical process by which one area takes over and controls another for its own benefit

Colonialism

Global Reach

Colonizers focused on gaining lands to establish large-scale agricultural production in the Americas and to establish trading posts for the Atlantic slave trade in Africa and ports for the spice trade in Asia. What best describes this trading system?

Steps in the production of a good from its design and raw materials to its production, marketing, and distribution

Commodity Chain

Wealthy countries set up exploitative economic relations whereby poorer countries became dependent on the wealthy and the wealthy benefited economically

Dependency Theory

The Spread of an idea or innovation from its hearth across space without the aid of people moving

Expansion Diffusion

An area of land distinguished by either cultural or physical criteria

Formal Region

An area that has a shared political, economic, or social purpose

Functional Region

Space

Geography is the study of people, place, environment, and:

Describes the process of heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across country boundaries?

Globalization

1500s

Globalization of the world's people and places began about:

The origin or place that a new good or service is initially produced is referred to as the

Hearth

manufactured goods, slaves, commodities

Identify the correct trade flow in the triangular trading system amongst Europe → Africa → the Americas → Europe, which ultimately helped establish the foundations of the capitalized world economy

A common second language used for business

Lingua Franca

Australia and New Zealand

Most developed countries are located in the Northern Hemisphere. Which of the following are notable exceptions?

Based on what an individual sees in his/her mind

Perceptual Region

Thematic

Relative locations of places are shown on what type of map?

A place with memories and emotions

Sense of Place

Political scientists outlined four hegemons between 1500 and 2000. Select the correct match of country and century below.

Spain—1500s; the Netherlands—1600s; Great Britain—1700s and 1800s; and the United States—1900s

A view that globalization after 1970 is fundamentally different because global corporations have become more important that states in the world economy

Strong Globalization

Spain and Portugal

The first wave of colonialism was sparked by these European colonial powers.

Environment

The physical context of the earth refers to:

Glocalization

The process of a company adapting its product to meet the demands of local culture is known as:

Cultural Landscape

The terraced rice fields of Ifugao Province in the Philippines is an example of:

Human

The two major fields of study within geography are physical geography and

Place

The uniqueness of a location and its shaping refers to:

Economies were focused on tourism

There were two waves of colonialism between 1500 and 1975. Which of the following is not true of the first wave (1500-1825) Ps same answer as second wave, which is not on this quizlet

A name of a place, or place-name,

Toponym:

True

True or False: Through examining mental maps, geographers gain a sense of how people understand their locality and how a particular place functions in the larger context.

True

True or False: Today, geographers no longer espouse environmental determinism, seeing it as a vast oversimplification of the world.

Threshold Concepts

Understanding World Regional Geography is designed to highlight 24:

Regional

Understanding the context behind the transmission of AIDS in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America is using a _____________approach

Uneven relationship between low labor costs and high-value product

Unequal Exchange

The South

We often perceive regions to exist even though we have never been to them. A strong example of regional perception in the United States is:

A View that traces modern globalization to circa 1500 and contends that globalization is a long standing process

Weak Globalization

Short term(day to day)

Weather

Modifiable areal unit problem

What does MAUP mean?

European powers arbitrarily divided the world's second-largest continent among themselves.

What does the term Scramble for Africa refer to?

Industrialization

What fueled the second wave of colonization in the second half of the nineteenth century?

Formal Region

What is an area of land distinguished by either cultural or physical traits or criteria?

Coffee

What is the leading fair trade product?

HDI (Human Development Index)

What tool assesses life expectancy, literacy, years of schooling, and per capita GDP

Hegemon

Which of the following is a term often used by geographers to describe the dominance of one state on the global stage?

Emerged since the 1970s

Which of the following is not consistent with weak globalization?

Cartography

______ is the subdiscipline of geography concerned with the construction of maps.

Thinking Geographically

_____________ means considering and understanding the context of what is going on in the world.

Functional

public school district in the United States is a _________________ region.