Geography 2
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- What is remote sending?
- Satelites are tools used for remote sensing. To view from afar.
- How many time zones are there?
- There are 24 International Date Lines.
- What is Irredentism?
- The State seeks to acquire ethnically similar people to stir up problems of other countries.
- What is formal region?
- The region that has certain properties. Aka, as Uniform or Homogeneous regions.
- Spatial
- a given point on earth's surface.
- What is Desertification?
- The expansion of the desert into neighboring lands due to the environment.
- Talking Western Extension of Europe are:
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W- Euroasia
E-Ural Mountains
West Central - What is Supernationalism?
- The voluntary association of three or more countries. This includes auch association involving economic, cultural, and/or political spheres. To giv eup sovereignty for betterment of their union?
- The 4 Basic Traditions of Geography are:
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-Regional
-Earth Science
-Cultural
-Spatial Organization - What is a megalopolis?
- That are super-cities that are clustered together like Boston-Washington.
- In Europe:
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-high literacy rates
-high taxes - 4 landlocked countries are:
- Germany, Autria, Czek, and Hungry
- The sea:
- made transportation great for trading of imports and exports.
- What is Complementarity?
- Regional complementarity exists when 2 regions, through an exchange of raw materials and/or finished products, can specifically satisfy each other's demands.
- Ireland is:
- its own entity and has no resources.
- What is Core Acres?
- Core acres is where major production-manufacturing is produced. It is the most productive region with the greateest centrality and accessability and might contain the capital city as well.
- What is agriculture?
- It is the world's leading occupation.
- Rome is known as what?
- the Vatican City with catholicism.
- What is Biomes?
- This is a terrestrial ecosystem that occupies an extensive geographical area, and is characterized by a specific type of plant community (deserts), and a macro-scale vegetation region.
- What does Greece need in order to survive?
- Tourism
- What is pangea?
- X
- What is Transferability?
- It is the capacity to move a good from one place to another, and at a barable cost; the ease with which a commodity may be transported
- United Kingdom is made of what countries?
- England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
- What is hydrosphere?
- Hydorsphere is all the water on the surface.
- What is Maritime?
- Anyting that pertains to the sea.
- What is a Third World Country?
- It is an underdeveloped countries that lack significant resources.
- What is CBD?
- Central Business District is the cultural core with the concentration of tall buildings and businesses.
- What is Multi-lingual?
- Multi-lingual is speaking more than one language as in Switerland where there are many languages spoken.
- What is UDC?
- Under Developed Countries suffer seriously from negative economic and social conditinos, including poor nutrtion, inadequate health, and relative disadvantaged circumstances.
- What is Uniligual?
- It is having only one language as in Austria is unilingual with German only spoken.
- What is Berlin?
- Berlin is an artifical capitol.
- What are the lowland countries of Europe are:?
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-Belgium
-Netherlands
-Luxenburg - Prime Meridian is located where?
- Greenwich, England from which the longitude is measured east and west.
- What is Balkanize?
- To break up into smaller and often hostile units. Describes a politically fractured regionor area.
- Whatis continental Drift?
- The slow movement of continents controlled by the processes associated with Plate tectonics.
- What is Primate City?
- It is a city almost twicxe in size as it's domestic rival.
- What is Rainshadow Resource?
- It is the relative dryness in areas downwind of mountain ranges.
- Weather vs. Climate?
- Weather is what the conditions are outside the door and Climate is what the conditions are over a region.
- What is the cultural capitol of Europe?
- Paris, France is.
- What is latitude?
- Lines of latitude are parallels that run east and west but measure the North and South distance.
- What is Hinterland?
- The area that is dependent upon the city. Water abbriviates our hinterland. It also has shrunk due to urban sprawl and traffic.
- What is Culture?
- Culture is a particular form or stage of civilization or anything that can be passed on to the next generation.
- What is region?
- Region is common term that is used to decribe a surface that is marked by certain properties or displays specific elements of uniformity.
- Borders of France are:
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-Spain, Italy, Belgium, Germany,
Switzerland, Luxenberg,
United Kingdom (across the water) - What is relative location?
- It is how cities react and interact with each other.