 |  World Regional Geography: The New Global Order Update, 2/e Michael Bradshaw,
College of St. Mark and John
Basics of World Regional Geography
More Study QuestionsStudy the Key Terms listed in this chapter. Consult the glossary as needed. - Match the following geographic terms with their descriptions.
| _____ Density | a. relative difficulty of moving from one
place to another | | _____ Diffusion | b. precise place where something occurs
| | _____ Direction | c. movement of people, things, or ideas
to new areas | | _____ Distance | d. representation of areas of Earth's surface
| | _____ Distribution | e. space between places | | _____ Friction of distance | f. sometimes measured in degrees on a compass
| | _____ Location | g. frequency of something within a unit
of land area | | _____ Map | h. can be linear, clustered, or random
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- Match the following terms related to maps with their descriptions.
| _____ Geographic information systems | a. a half circle drawn between the north
and south poles | | _____ Isoline | b. computer-based combination of maps,
data, and analysis | | _____ Latitude | c. techniques using aerial photographs
or satellite image | | _____ Longitude | d. measures the north-south position of
a place | | _____ Meridian of longitude | e. a circle running east and west on Earth's
surface | | _____ Parallel of latitude | f. relationship of horizontal ground distance
to map distance | | _____ Remote sensing | g. measures the east-west position of a
place | | _____ Scale | h. connects places of the same value |
- Match the following demographic terms with their descriptions.
| _____ Birth rate | a. defined by birth and death rates | | _____ Death rate |
b. study of characteristics of human populations
| | _____ Demographic transition | c. average number of births per woman during
her lifetime | | _____ Demography | d. long-term movement of people into or
out of a place | | _____ Infant mortality | e. births per 1,000 inhabitants in a year
| | _____ Migration | f. birth and death rates changing as economic
conditions improve | | _____ Natural population change | g. deaths per 1,000 live births in the
first year of life | | _____ Total fertility rate | h. deaths per 1,000 inhabitants in a year
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- Match the following terms related to trade with their descriptions.
| _____ Export-oriented industry | a. prevention of discrimination among trading
partners | | _____ Free trade area | b. includes high tariffs to protect internal
markets | | _____ General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
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c. production for competitive export markets
| | _____ Import substitution | d. group of countries with a common set
of tariffs on imports | | _____ World Trade Organization |
e. included the Uruguay round
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- Match the following economics terms with their descriptions.
| _____ Economics | a. study of production, distribution, and consumption
of goods and resources | | _____ Industry | b. making goods and providing services in several
countries | | _____ Informal sectors | c. deprivation of minimally acceptable material
requirements | | _____ Multinational corporation | d. group of business activities | | _____ New international division of labor | e.making a living outside of waged, salaried,
and taxed employment | | _____ Poverty | f. high salaried jobs in core countries and
low-wage jobs in peripheral countries |
- Match the following economic sectors with their descriptions.
| _____ Primary sector | a. distribution of goods and services | | _____ Quaternary sector | b. production of useful products like chewing
gum | | _____ Secondary sector | c. production of output from natural sources
| | _____ Tertiary sector | d. assembly, transmission, and processing
of information |
- Match the following development terms with their descriptions.
| _____ Development | a. indicates levels of personal deprivation
| | _____ Gender-related Development Index | b. total value of goods and services produced
in a country in a year plus foreign transactions | | _____ Gross domestic product | c. rate of development that does not deplete
basic resources for the future | | _____ Gross national product | d. efforts to improve the quality of life
| | _____ Human Development Index | e. total value of goods and services produced
in a country in a year excluding foreign transactions | | _____ Human Poverty Index | f. indicates inequalities between men and
women | | _____ Sustainable human development | g. based on income, life expectancy, adult
literacy, and infant mortality |
- Match the following theories of development with their descriptions.
| _____ Dependency theory
| a. poorer countries attempt to develop from primary to secondary to
tertiary stages
| | _____ Dual sectors
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b. poorer countries are exploited by the core countries
| | _____ Marginalization
| c. differences between rural and urban-industrial areas
| | _____ Modernization
| d. some poor people do not benefit from economic growth in their country
| | _____ Structural adjustment
| e. countries become more involved in the world economic system
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- Match the following cultural terms with their descriptions.
| _____ Class
| a. stratification of society
| | _____ Cultural hearth
| b. cultural implications of one's sex
| | _____ Gender
| c. biological characteristics of people
| | _____ Language
| d. spoken means of communication among people
| | _____ Race
| e. organized system of values and practices
| | _____ Religion
| f. small region from which advances diffused
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- Match the following climate terms with their descriptions.
| _____ global warming
| a. almost total darkness for several months
| | _____ midlatitude climate
| b. caused by the burning of fossil fuels
| | _____ polar climate
| c. high temperatures throughout the year
| | _____ tropical climate
| d. seasonal temperature contrasts
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- Match the following biomes with their descriptions.
| _____ Desert biome
| a. relatively few, scattered trees
| | _____ Forest biome
| b. little solar energy to support life
| | _____ Grassland biome
| c. little or no vegetation
| | _____ Ocean biome
| d. plankton form the basis of life
| | _____ Polar biome
| e. many trees
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- Match the following environmental terms with their descriptions.
| _____ Biome
| a. once extracted there is no more left
| | _____ Climate
| b. visual appearance or total regional environment or cultural interpretation
| | _____ Ecosystem
| c. weathered material that is a basis for plant growth
| | _____ Landscape
| d. world scale ecosystem
| | _____ Non-renewable resource
| e. long-term atmospheric conditions of a place
| | _____ Renewable resource
| f. valuable and useful materials
| | _____ Resource
| g. replaced by natural processes
| | _____ Soils
| h. total environment of a community of plants and animals
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- Match the following environmental terms with their descriptions.
| _____ Deposition
| a. destruction of the productive capacity of land
| | _____ Desertification
| b. earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods
| | _____ Erosion
| c. dropping of rock particles
| | _____ Hazard
| d. action of atmospheric forces like temperature change
| | _____ Tectonic plate
| e. wearing away of rocks on Earth's surface
| | _____ Weathering
| f. moved by the heat of Earth's interior
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- Briefly describe the following term:
a. Political_____________________________________________________________ |
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