Economic Geography
Resources that are used by humans
i.e. water, oil, trees
What are natural resources?
These are things that make someone want to live somewhere.
What are pull factors?
The country that is south of the United States.
What is Mexico?
This continent makes up the members of the EU.
What is Europe?
Longest river in the world, found in Africa.
What is the Nile River?
Skilled and unskilled laborers are types of this resources.
What are human resources?
Give 2 examples of pull factors.
The continent that is south of Europe.
What is Africa?
This is where two rivers meet and flow into one, a great place to settle a city
What is a confluence site?
What is Victoria Falls?
Services like transportation, retail, information technology are all examples of this level of economic activity.
What is tertiary?
How humans change/are changed by the environment.
Human-environment interaction
The largest country in Europe, spans across Asia and Europe.
What is Russia?
The separation of Ireland from Northern Ireland is an example of this kind of conflict.
What is religious conflict?
This location is where Europe grows most of its food.
What is the Northern European Plain?
Population growth rate, literacy rate, life expectancy are all examples of this.
What are standards of living/quality of life?
Give 3 examples of physical processes that shape the surface of the Earth.
Earthquakes
Floods
Volcanic eruptions
Erosion
Deposition
Country that is south of Mexico, largest country in South America
What is Brazil?
"Jimmy knows the route from his house to his school, and can name each street along the way."
This statement is an example of -
What is a mental map?
Capital of Russia
What is Moscow?
This energy use suffers problems from waste issues and contamination.
What is nuclear energy?
Language, religion, customs and traditions, and cultural landscape are all ways that this influences a region.
What is migration?
Country that is east of Korea and China.
What is Japan?
To contract out business, often to foreign companies. Used to lower production costs.
What is outsourcing?
Mountain range in Australia's east coast
What is the Great Dividing Range?