Regions
The center or heart of a state constituted by the largest population cluster with the most productivity
What is core area?
The earnings from all goods and services produced by the citizen of a country during a year
GNI Gross national income
Zone of crustal instability along tectonic plate boundaries marked by earthquakes and volcanic activity
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
Pertaining to space on the Earth's surface
What is spatial?
The ration of map distance to actual ground distance
What is scale?
The long-term conditions of aggregate weather over a region
What is climate?
The field of geography that focuses on the diverse way in which people earn a living
What is economic geography?
An area of spatial change where peripheries of two adjacent realms or regions join
What is a transition zone?
Legal concept meaning that the government of a state rules supreme within its borders
What is sovereignty?
The number of people per unit area
What is population density?
Not associated with a regions's physiography
a) tectonic plate
b) climate pattern
c) cultural landscape
d) effects of glaciation
e) dominant vegetation
What is c) cultural landscape
The surrounding area served by an urban center
What is the hinterland?
Relative warm spells that separate glaciations
What are interglacials?
Absolute location vs. relative location
What is latitude and longitude vs in reference to another place?
The immediate state of the atmosphere
What is the weather?
areas where the four largest population agglomerations are located
What are
S. Asia
E. Asia
Europe
Eastern North America
A politically organized territory that is administered by a sovereign government and is recognized by most of the international community
What is a state?
A geographic realm
What is a large regional unit based on broad multiple criteria, mainly:
Physical and human
Functional
Historical
The proportion of a country's population living in cities and towns
What is urbanization?
The recently proven theory that the earth's crust consists of a set of rigid places that are in motion.
What is plate tectonics?
The difference between a formal region and a functional region
What is internal homogeneity vs. dynamics defined by structuring as spatial systems
The European state model
What is a state with a legally defined territory, inhabited by a population governed from a capital city by a representative government.
The names of the 12 Geographic realms in order
What are:
Europe
Russia
N. America
Middle America
S. America
Subsaharan Africa
N. Africa/ SW Asia
S. Asia
E. Asia
SE Asia
Austral Realm
Pacific Realm?
The gradual reduction of regional contrasts resulting from increasing international cultural, economic and political exchanges
What is globalization?
The composite of the human imprint on the Earth's surface
What is cultural landscape?