What are specific geographic settings with distinctive physical, social, and cultural attributes?
What are places
100
What does GPS stand for, and what does it do?
What is global positioning system? It makes it easy to determine longitude and latitude. Made up of 21 satellites that orbit the earth.
100
What is the system of cultivation in which plants are harvested close to the ground, the stubble is left to dry, and then is ignited?
What is the slash-and-burn technique
100
What is an interdependent system of countries linked by political and economic competition?
What is a world-system
100
What is the increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world through common processes of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change?
What is globalization
200
What is the sense that you make of yourself through your subjective feelings based on your everyday experiences and social relations?
What is your identity
200
Latitude lines run which way around the globe, parallel to what important point on the Earth?
What is east to west, and the Equator
200
What is the physical settlement in a new territory of people from a colonizing state?
What is colonization
200
What is the process of making goods that were previously available only by trading?
What is import substitution
200
Describe transnational corporations, and give some examples of today's transnational corporations. (Bonus: What does GDP stand for?)
Investments and activities that span international boundaries. Walmart, BP, Airbus, Halliburton.
300
What does G.I.S stand for?
What is geographic information systems
300
What way do longitude lines run around the earth, parallel to what important point on the Earth's surface?
What is north to south, and the prime meridian
300
What is the form of economic organization characterized by the profit and control of the means of production and exchange of goods by private ownership?
What is capitalism
300
What is the exercise of military power and economic influence by powerful states in order to advance their national interests? How is this different from colonialism?
What is imperialism; colonialism is the use of power specifically against separate and alien societies, and implies domination over these states.
300
What is a pandemic? How is a pandemic different from an epidemic?
What is epidemic that spans rapidly around the world with high rates of illness and death.
400
What kind of research uses census data and commercial data about populations of small districts for market research?
What is geodemographic research
400
What is the term used to describe different religious or ethnic groups with distinctive identities coexisting within the same state-boundaries?
What is regionalism
400
What is a group of minisystems that have been absorbed into a common political system? (Give two examples once you have the answer. Remember, this is before America's time.)
What is a world-empire (Rome, Greece, Egypt, Prussia, China, Ottomans)
400
Describe the three sections of the World-System, and give examples of each.
Core, Semi-Periphery, Periphery
400
The idea that one's race and culture is superior to another.
What is ethnocentrism
500
What are the three different kinds of "geography" and what distinguishes them from one another?
What is human geography, physical geography, and regional geography. Physical: earths natural processes and outcomes. Human: Spatial organization of human activities and people's relationship with their environment. Regional: Elements of both. The way the two produce territories with distinct landscapes and cultural attributes.
500
Location, distance, space, accessibility, and spatial interaction are five concepts that are key to what term?
What is spatial analysis
500
What is the area of a town or city that is its sphere of economic influence; the area where it collects products to be exported and through which it distributes imports?
What is the hinterland
500
Give the definition of the Division of Labor and Comparative Advantage. What is the difference between the two?
Division of labor: Specialization of people, regions, and countries on certain economic activities. Comparative advantage: specializations that do not duplicate or compete with the domestic suppliers in the core.
500
What are the several definitions of "Jihad"
The cultural values of religious fundamentalism, traditional tribal allegiances, and opposition to Western Materialism. "Struggle". The disallusioned definition from the West.