02Geographic Setting
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- What do people who study geography learn about?
- They study the earth and its relationship to the people who live on it.
- What is topography?
- The study of the Earth's land and water features.
- What is a hemisphere?
- Half of a sphere.
- Name two examples of natural resources.
- Oil, coal, natural gas, water, timber, minerals, etc.
- What is rural?
- Having to do with the countryside.
- What is urban?
- Having to do with the city; urbanization is the tendency of people to move to major cities for better jobs, infrastructure (plumbing, electricity, etc).
- What is urbanization?
- The tendency of people to move to cities in search of better jobs, living facilities etc.
- What is a subcontinent?
- a large area of land geographically separated from the rest of the continent (such as India from Asia).
- What are monsoons?
- Seasonal WINDS that change direction in South and Southeast Asia.
- What is a plateau?
- A raised relatively flat area of land.
- What does elevation tell you?
- It tells you how high a place on the Earth is (how many feet or meters above sea level).
- What does arid mean?
- dry, as in a desert
- What is a natural barrier?
- Any physical feature or land or water form that helps to isolate a nation or a region.
- What are political boundaries?
- Man-made borders decided by governments.
- What is a regular or smooth coastline?
- One that has few bays or harbors or ports - it is difficult to ship without these things.
- What are the advantages of an IRREGULAR (also called rough) coastline?
- An irregular coastline has many bays, ports and harbors so shipping and protection of the ships is possible.
- What is the topographical land feature called a plain or plains?
- An area of land that is level and at a lower elevation than a plateau.
- What continent is a peninsula of peninsulas with a very rough or irregular coastline?
- Europe
- What is climate?
- The weather conditions of a region over a long long period of time
- What is the savannah climate zone/region of Africa?
- It is the grasslands dotted with scattered trees. It has unreliable rainfall yet is where many Africans live and farm.
- What are the STEPPES of Central Asia or South/Southeastern Russia?
- STEPPE is a vast area of land usually relatively level (sometimes slightly hilly) and often treeless and grassy.
- What is the definition of "arable"?
- land that is fertile or good for farming
- What is a peninsula?
- It is a land feature. It is a piece of land that juts out surrounded by water on THREE (repeat THREE) sides.
- What is a continent?
- one of the world's seven landmasses.
- What is an isthmus?
- It is a LAND feature. It is a NARROW STRIP OF LAND that CONNECTS two LARGER PIECES OF LAND.
- What is an archipelago?
- a chain of islands
- What are relative location measurements on a map or globe?
- North, South, East, West, etc. of something.
- Why were river valleys such as the Indus, the Yellow, the Nile, the Tigris and Euphrates (Mesopotamia) the location of humanity's earliest civilizations and cities?
- These were areas with warm climates and fertile (arable) soil. In spring, floods would deposit silt on the river banks and people began a neolithic (agricultural) revolution by settling and farming there.
- What is a strait?
- It is a WATER BODY. It is a narrow strip of WATER that connects two larger water bodies.
- When a nation is landlocked, what problem does it have?
- It has no access to the sea (no border on an ocean or sea).
- What continent is 40% savannah and 30% desert, wth many natural features that isolate or limit communication and easy travel?
- Africa
- What feature covers the western half of China?
- Mountains.
- South America has two major natural features that isolate and distinguish it.
- The Andes Mountains and the Amazon River drainage Basin.