Geog 100 - Test I
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- GIS Stands for What?
- Geographic Information System
- Three Things GIS deals with
- Geometry, Topology, Attributes
- What are the two earth processes
- Physical and Cultural
- 3 Things, Geography as What
- A body of knowledge, A science, and as technology
- The nature of warfare has what?
- Changed Forever
- How many dimensions can GIS be?
- 2 (2-D & 3-D)
- This was one of the earliest maps ever found, a silk map from the second century, and was found in ancient China
- Maps of Human Suffering
- What is the best available Census Data at Finest Census Geometry?
- Population Data
- What are things GIS can help with?
- Natural Disasters, Homeland Security
- GIS was used with what major attack?
- NYC Trade Center Attacks
- Name of the hotel that was located
- Helen Carcanis Newport Hotel
- GIS is improving efficiencies for just about everything that involves what three things?
- location, movement, and flow
- what acts protect you from being located and watched?
- Patriot Act
- Surveillance of other people has sometimes been called?
- Geoslavery
- What ways is a GPS tracker installed?
- Bracelets, Chips in body, Car trackers
- What is Globalization?
- Increasing level of interconnections among people throughout the world
- When did it take off?
- the 1990's
- What is localization?
- increasing insistence on distinctive identities
- Are those that favor globalization a minority or majority
- minority
- Facets of Globalization are
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ideas, technologies, diseases. Good from many places of manufacture
EX: Jeet's Market - Facets of Localization are
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Nationalism, local customs and practices, resentment
EX: Taliban in Afghanistan - What are some major global shifts that occured in the 1990's
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Cold War, New World Order (NATO)
EX: Saudi Arabia - What is Global Economics?
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Study of how people collectively use resources to meet their needs for Goods and Services
(Producing, Distributing, and Consuming) - What are the two main economic disparities
- Wealth (Income, housing, food, health care) & Poverty (malnutrition, exhaustion, disease, poor housing, poor health care)
- What are the two characteristics of culture?
- Learned behavior (ideas, beliefs, practices)& Expressions of shared culture (religion, language, role of women, etc.)
- What are some examples of reflections of cultural values
- Number of working hours, recreational activities, food and meal preferences
- What is World Culture?
- Culture that allows democracy, individualism, and human rights. May not be for everyone.
- What are the three political and economic systems?
- Communism, Fascism, and Democracy with Free Market Economy
- What is Physical Geography?
- Natural Environments (Mountains, Rivers, Oceans, Rocks)
- What is Cultural/Social/Human Geography?
- Cultural Environments (Land use, lifestyle, Human Welfare)
- What are the three interactive workings of earth's building blocks?
- Hydrosphere (Rivers, Lakes, Oceans) Lithosphere (Crust, Rocks, soil) Atmosphere
- What are the two environmental factors in Human Development?
- Natural Hazards(earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions) and Natural Resources (Minerals, soils, water)
- What are examples of human geography Affecting Physical Geography?
- Buildings, fields, deforestation, transportation networks, drainage networks
- What is Geography?
- study of earth as the environment or spaces where people live and through which they make life meaningful
- Geography is the science and practice of what?
- Spatial Logic
- What are the four types of geographic studies?
- distribution, interrelationships, location, & character of a landscape or region
- Who came up with the theory of Multiple Intelligences?
- Howard Gardner
- 1 meter = how far of the distance from the equator to the pole
- 1/10,000,000
- LATITUDE describes how far what?
- North or South (0-90 degrees) of the equator
- LONGITUDE describes how far what?
- East or West (0-180 degrees) of the Prime Meridian
- The Prime Meridian is located where?
- Greenwich, England
- Geography, simply put, is about what?
- Places
- Geography employs what kind of view
- Spatial
- What are regions?
- High degree of uniformity/comparatively limited variability
- What are two characteristics of regions?
- Flows and Global City Regions
- What is important in regions?
- Human action is more important than physical environments in defining regions
- What do regions do?
- Shape poeple's activities, can change over time, and interact with one another
- What is colonialism
- Benefits of civilization
- What was the world like Pre and post Cold War
- Pre: Two world powers, two ideologies. Post: One world power, mostly democracy
- What is the goal of Human Development
- Attempt to mobilize resources (human and natural) so that people can produce goods and services
- What are the four minimum goods and services that must meet basica needs?
- Food, Shelter, Health Care, and Physical Safety and security
- What is Sustainable Development?
- Growth that does not deplete essential resources
- What are the 7 freedoms of human rights?
- Freedom from discrimination, freedom to develop and reach one's potential, freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom from injustice, freedom of thought and speech, and freedom to have decent work without exploitation
- What are the origins of Freedom?
- Democracy of Ancient Greece, French Revolution, and American Revolution which created the Bill of Rights
- What two things usually go hand in hand?
- Human Development and Human Rights
- When did exponential Growth really take off?
- The Industrial Revolution (mid 1700's)
- What are the two population dynamics?
- Demography (usually not spatial, birth rate, death rate) and Population of Geography (highly spatial, study of distribution, density, and location)
- Who wrote the Book about How Many People Earth can Support?
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Thomas Malthus
Growth turned out to be Greater than he expected - How many people are in the world?
- 6 Billion
- What kind of economies dominate the world?
- Free Market
- What kind of Systems are there?
- Socialist not Communist
- What is the World Trade Organization?
- Open Trade policies allowed and it was President Wilson's state goal for WWI
- What are Regional Differences?
- "American Way"(independent banking and legal systems) "Asian Way"(Family linkages, Government Intervention) and "Europen Way" (Social Welfare, High Taxes)
- How do you measure Wealth, Poverty, and Human Development?
- Gross Domestic Product (Total Goods and Services in One Country per year).. GDP. Gross National Income (GDP+Foreign Transactions)..GNI.
- What are the four economic sectors?
- Primary Sector (Extracting directly from natural resources) Secondary Sector (Manufacturing) Tertiary Sector (Distribution, Business Services, and Government) Quaternary Sector (Finance, Professions)
- What are the two Global Businesses
- Multinational Corporations (MNC'S... mostly for profit) and Nongovernmental Organizations (NGO's.. primarily for aid)
- What are Global City Regions and where are they located
- Control centers of the Economy. New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo
- What is Culture?
- Code of acquired beliefs passed from generation to generation
- What is Language?
- Spoken means of communication. There are 12 dominant but thousands of languages do exist.
- What are religions?
- Organized set of beliefs and practices, often with system of values.
- What are the five major religions?
- Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism
- What is an Ethnic Group?
- culture of its own so that members feel set apart by religion, language, national origin, or racial characteristics.
- What are the political worlds?
- First: Free World. Second: Communist. Third: World's Poorest Countries
- What is a nation?
- imagined community in which a group of people believe that they share a common cultural features.
- What is nationalism?
- A desire to make the nation equivalent to a country unit.
- What are Indigenous People?
- The first inhabitants of an area or those present when the area is taken over by another group.
- What are the two ways to shape the Earth's surface?
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Externally: Weathering, Erosion, and deposition.
Internally: Plate Tectonics - done
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