Vocab
Zone of crustal instability along the tectonic plate boundaries
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
A stretch of geologic time during which the Earth's average atmospheric temperature is lowered
What is the Ice Age?
Colder Phases within an ice age
What are Glaciations?
Warmer phases within an ice age in which ice recedes poleward
What are interglacials?
Bonded portions of the Earth's mantle and crust
What are plate tectonics?
The array of landforms that constitutes the Earth's surface
What is Natural Landscape?
The slow movement of continents controlled by the processes associated with plate tectonics
What is Continental drift?
An area of spatial change where the peripheries of two adjacent realms or regions join
What is a Transition Zone?
What are regional boundaries?
The way people have arranged themselves in geographic space
What is Population Distribution?
The field of geography that focuses on the diverse ways in which people earn a living and how the goods and services they produce are expressed and organized spatially
What is Economic Geography?
Legal concept meaning that the government of a state rules supreme within its boarders
What is Sovereignty?
The direction of Boston from Still River
What is East?
Maps which allow you to navigate your activity space with efficiency, predictability and safety
What are Mental Maps?
The muslims' holy city of Mecca is in this country
What is Saudi Arabia?
Which of the following realms does not contain a major world-scale population cluster
S. America N. America Europe
S. Asia E. Asia
What is S. America?
Which is not associated with a region's physiography
Tectonic plate climate pattern cultural landscape
effects of glaciation dominant vegetation
What is cultural landscape?
The name of the global map you have been using to practice your realms on
What is Goode-Homolosine?
The prime meridian of longitude runs through this country
What is England?
What is S. Asia?
The names of the 12 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, Pacific?
The spatial unevenness in standard of living that occurs within a country, whose "average" overall income statistics invariably mask the differences that exist between wealthy and poor
What is Regional disparity?
The large country at the center of the realm called S. Asia
What is India?
The islands of the Caribbean Sea belong to this realm
What is Middle America?
The two countries that constitute the Austral Realm are Australia and __________
What is New Zealand?