world geo midterm
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- Cartographer
- Map maker
- landsat
- maps world and weather, stays in certain places for 18 days
- geography
- features, climates, economics, social
- rocky mountains
- canada to mexico
- great plains
- praire of us, wheat, breadbasket
- free enterprise systems
- run by individuals who make a profit
- columbian exchange
- 1492 explorers brought goods, diseases, animals, and plants
- sectionalism
- loyalty to section of land
- service industry
- selling goods
- megalopolis
- major city with surrounding suburbs
- postindustrial economy
- past industrial to make money, like technology
- representative democracy
- elect representatives
- breadbasket
- oklahoma, kansas, iowa, nebraska
- new world
- americas
- kunlun mountains
- northern tibet,
- qin ling mountains
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They form the main physical barrier between the Wei River valley and the Sichuan Plain.
central china - gobi desert
- china and souther mongolia
- 3 gorges dam
- project in china, stop flooding from huang he, generates power, ships can come from sea
- pcbs
- chemical toxins that goe into fish tissues and are harmful to humans
- landfill
- buried trash, gasses buildup
- huang he
- major river in china
- cultural revolution
- 1966-1976 instituted by mao, 1958 great leap forward take everyone out of city and make them farmers.
- problems of industrialization of se china
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population and emmission systems
marine pollution
landfills - 70% of japan consists of __
- mountains
- largest muslim population in the world
- indonesia
- silk road
- trade route made by marco polo, route from europe to china
- second leading industrial nation in the world
- japan
- largest populations of christians in se asia
- philipines
- major activity that brought buddhism, hinduism, and islam to se asia
- trade
- earliest religion in japan
- shintoism
- mongolias location, economy, and political status
- landlocked, china and russia, no economy, trying to become democracy
- japanese economy status after WWII
- desomated, helped by us
- economies of vietnam, cambodia, and laos describe
- third world
- shintoism
- no founder or holy book, japan, nature
- buddhism
- suddhartha gutthama, vehdas, monks, nirvana, 8 fold path, middle way, 4 noble truths
- confucianism
- konchu, kung futzue, no holy book, civil service exam