Global Connections
An interconnected world is facilitated through this process.
Globalization
"The West (Europe and North America) has pushed its worldview and culture as the best and correct way of living and being" describes which building block of colonialism?
West is Best
The current period of significant human impact on the planet, including changes in the atmosphere, land, and oceans.
Anthropocene
An area with limited access to healthy, affordable food
Food desert
The impact the environment has on humans or the impact humans have on the environment
Human - Environment Interaction
Countries with high levels of industrialization and income, typically found in North America, Western Europe, and parts of Asia.
MDC
Giving all power to one authority in a nation that they colonizers sought to take-over to ensure they kept their people "under-contro". Aka, they created dictators who suppressed civilian outcrys for help.
Holding up Hiearchies
Cheap, trendy clothes made quickly and unsustainably
Fast Fashion
This social phenomenon partially causes lack of access to essential menstrual hygiene products.
Period poverty and/or menstruation stigma
What concept explains climate effects in far-apart places?
Spaitial Pattern
Economic disparity between the industrialized North and the underdeveloped South.
The North South Gap
What does “unceded” mean?
Never given up
A large area defined by climate, vegetation, and ecosystems
A Biome
"Using natural resources to sustain health, culture, and environment" describes which course concept?
Netukulimk
An area of land that has consistent or easily recognizable features.
Region
Colonialism, slavery and corporate exploitation are causes of this geographical gap.
The North-South Gap
What economic system emphasizes private ownership, profit-seeking, and market expansion, contributing to colonialism?
Capitalism
Why have some farmers in India committed suicide?
Debt, seed dependency, failed crops from industrial agriculture.
A large increase in crop production as-well as human and environmental disaster in developing countries achieved by the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties.
The Green Revolution
"The Empire State Building is at 40.7° North latitude and 74° West longitude." - Which geographic concept is this?
Absolute location
List 3 MDCs and 3 LDCs/LLDCs.
MDCs: Canada, Germany, Japan. LDCs: Haiti, Sudan, Bangladesh
Destruction of existing political systems
“Underdevelopment”
Internal strife and conflict
Cultural loss
Displacement and forced migration
Are a part of what harmful force/system/process?
Colonialsim
This is the solid, rocky outer shell of the Earth, consisting of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle. It's where landforms like mountains, valleys, and plains are located. It is also responsible for the rock cycle, where rocks are constantly being created, changed, and destroyed.
The lithosphere
Debt, seed dependency, failed crops from industrial agriculture and others have contributed to this social problem/loss, particularly in India.
Farmers mass suicide
Identify 3 of the concepts of geography from this short story: North of Echo Falls and west of the Hollowbend Hills lies the town of Prosperton, built on the traditional lands of the Flamebird Nation in the country of Eloria. As housing prices rise in the capital city of Skylure, many people have moved to Prosperton for more affordable living. The town has welcomed new development, but much of it has been built on land the Flamebird people consider sacred. Protests by the Flamebird Nation have been met with aggression from construction crews, leading to growing tension.
Along with the town’s rapid growth, a new landfill has been placed near the Flamebird reserve. Since then, community members have reported contaminated water, poor air quality, and rising health problems, including illness in children and a spike in miscarriages. While officials insist the landfill is safe, reports of illegal dumping have raised concerns. Local religious leaders are calling for an investigation and a halt to dumping until the truth is known.
- Absolute location
- Human/Env. interaction
- Culture