Chapter 3: Outline 1. What is MIGRATION? * Migration is inherently geographical. a) Cyclic Movement- involves journeys that begin at our home base and bring us back to it. * Commuting the journey from home to work and again takes from minutes to hours and can involves several modes of transportation. * Seasonal Movement – every autumn hundreds of thousands of travelers leave their home in Canada and the northern parts of the United States. a) It
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Chapter 25 Process of fossilization · Moving water can suspend sediment – inorganic particles · Moving water fills into still body of water o Sediment flats to the bottom o Forms a layer o More layers form with different compositions on the bottom of the lake or ocean · Living things in the ocean die and get buried in the sediments in the ocean · A lot of weight and pressure pushing down · The organic material is replaced by rocks – mineralization resulting
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Chapter 8 Annexation: Incorporation of a territory into another geo-political entity. Antarctica: Southernmost continent in the world. It has no permanent residents and doesn’t belong to any country. Apartheid: Afrikaans for apartness‚ it was the segregation of blacks in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. It was created to keep the white minority in power and allow them to have almost total control over the black majority. Balkanization: The political term used when referring to the fragmentation
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Chapter 1 -What is Scale? What is the difference between local and global scale? -What are the three methods of scale and describe them. 1.) 2.) 3.) -What is projection and what are the 4 types of distortion that can result from projection? What are the differences between the Mercator and Peter’s projections? -What does the saying “uniform global landscape” mean? -What does the idea the world is shrinking mean? (4 things) 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) -What is a transnational corporation
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Chapter 10 focuses on the environment and development. Many of the effects of development impact the environment greatly‚ and these negative externalities tend to fall on poor people who don’t have the resources to escape the conditions. The chapter opens with a quote from Nicholas Stern that reads‚ “The poorest developing countries will be hit earliest and hardest by climate change‚ even though they have contributed little to causing the problem.” I wanted to talk about this quote and what exactly
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StudyAP Human Geography Notes Bartula 4/15/09 General Geography: US road map is not a thematic map Every meridian is the same length and has the same beginning and end According to environmental determinism‚ the physical environment causes social development Highest density: most in numbers Highest concentration: closest together Cloropleth map uses shading Five Themes of Geography: Location: Relative location Absolute location Place: Human Characteristics Physical
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nepal Nepal (Listeni/nɛˈpɔːl/ ne-PAWL[5] Nepali: नेपाल [neˈpal] ( listen))‚ officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal‚[6] is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. With an area of 147‚181 square kilometres (56‚827 sq mi) and a population of approximately 27 million (and nearly 2 million absentee workers living abroad)‚[2] Nepal is the world’s 93rd largest country by land mass[7] and the 41st most populous country. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by
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Sons‚ Norwich CATMOG - Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES IN MODERN GEOGRAPHY No. 44 GEOGRAPHY AND HUMANISM by John Pickles (West Virginia University) EDITOR ’S NOTE PREFACE NOTE ON THE USE OF THE GLOSSARY I INTRODUCTION (i) (ii) (iii) II (i) (ii) (i) (ii) IV (i) (ii) V (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) VI (1) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) Two themes in the development of humanism in geography Philosophical underpinnings The need for critique Liberalism
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1. Boundary Types (Antecedent‚ Subsequent‚ etc.) a. This concept is important because it shows the relationship between different regions‚ as well as colonized countries and their colonizers. The different boundary types either create more difficult ways of transportation/trade‚ or ease transportation/trade‚ etc. 2. Federal/Unitary/Confederate Governments b. The different types of government are important because they show how a country is being ruled. It also hints at the type
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Total fertility rate- the average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years Demographic momentum- where the large group of young people grow past childbearing age and the population decreases Crude death rate- aka mortality rate‚ number of deaths in a given year for every thousand people in a population Infant mortality rate- number of deaths among infants under one year of age for each thousand live births per year Natural increase- the difference between the crude
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