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Population density

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Population per unit area

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Region

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An area on the Earth’s surface marked by specific criteria (area, boundaries, location, homogeniety) -physical or cultural. (all have area, boundaries, & location)

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Characteristics of a Region

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Area

Boundaries

Location

Homogeniety

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Formal Region

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Marked by a certain degree of homogenity in 1+ phenomena (physical or internal) immobilistic

aka: uniform/homogeneous region

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Functional Region

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spatial system marked by dynamic internal structure (urban core/economic activity)

aka nodal region

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two types of things that can mark a functional region

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urban core

economic activity

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Physical Geography

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Wegner’s theory of Pangaea based on tectonic/lisopheric plates

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Tectonic Plates

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heavy rocks moving propelled by giant circulation cells in the red ot magma below & carry continents

Volcanoes & earthquakes result when they collide

aka lisopheric plates

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Subduction

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When oceanic plate converges head on with a plate carrying a continental landmass @ its leading edge. The light plate overrides the plate & pushes it downward

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Ring of Fire

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Pacific Ocean almost completely encircles by active volcanoes & earthquake epicenters

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Climate

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aggregate, total recodrd of weather conditions at a place, or in a region, over the entire period during which records have been kept

Impacts how, where, & why ppl live where they are living

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Physiological density

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Population per unit area of arable land

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arable

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can be used for agriculture and habitation

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Development

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the economic, social, and institutional growth of national states to improve the well-being of its people

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Geo

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Earth

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Graphos

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to write/describe

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Spatial viewpoint

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how, why, and where things are located on the earth’s surface the way they are

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Transition Zone

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area of spatial change where peripheries of two adjacent regions join, makred by a gradual shift in the characteristics that distinguish neighboring realsm

ex: subsaharan africa & north africa/southwest asia

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Scale

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ratio of distance on a map to ground distance

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Cultural landscape

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the composite of human imprints on the earth’s surface- always being modified & evolving

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Culture

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Shared patterns of learned behavior (not part of DNA)

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“A” climate

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tropical conditions, high temps, never freezes, all year around precipitation (may be wet, dry, wet, or wet monsoon)

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“B” climate

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low & high altitiudes (found anywhere)

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“Bw” climate

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true desert (<10 cm rain annually)

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"Bs" climate
semiarid \>10 cm rain annually
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"D" climate
only found in northern hemisphere (only category found in 1 hemisphere), continental climate, no equivalent land areas in Southern Hemisphere, cold winters, cool summers, best soil here (not necessarily most productive)
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"C" climate
Mid-latitudes beyond tropics, no climate extremes, cold winters, precipitations range from moist-dry summer
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"E & H" Climate
frigid conditions with many places with permanent ice & snow
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"E" climate
near poles
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"H" climate
at equator or low latitudes, but at high elevation (arctic like conditions then)
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Spatial scient
arrangement of everything on the earth's surface (what geography is)
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geographic realms are based on
spatial criteria
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the largest geographic units into which the inhabited world can be divided
geographic realms
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what is based on physical and human yardsticks
geographic realms
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geographic realms resulted from
interaction between human societies & natural environments
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function interaction of geographic realms are revealed by
farms, mines, fishing ports, transport routes, dams, bridges, villages, & other features of the landscape
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Regions are marked by
spatial similarity
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2 types of regions
formal functional
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Formal regions are
uniformity in one or al imited number of related physical/cultural features and do not change
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functional realms are centered on
central spot (core/node)
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do functional regions change?
yes
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3 main layers of the earth
crust, mantle, core (inner/outer)
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land hemisphere
half of the globe containing the greatest amount of land surface, centered on Western Europe. 80% of landmass located in lcose proximity to each other
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Isolated State Model
Von Thunen bullseye: central city, intensive farming & dairying, forest, increasingly extensive field crops, ranching animal products
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Nation-state
a large majority of the population shares cultural homogeneity & unity (Iceland)
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Centrifugal forces
forces that tend to divide a country (religious, linguistic, ethnic, or ideological differences)
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Centripital forces
forces that unite & bind a country together (a strong national culture, shared ideolgical objectives, and a common faith)
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Primate city
country's largest city, disproportionally larger than the second largest city, expressive of national culture, usually the capitla, (Paris, London, Athens)
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Break-of-Bulk point
location along a transport route where goods must be transferred from one carrier to another. Cargo of ocreangoing ships are unloaded and put on trains, trucks, or perhaps smaller river boats for inland distribution (entrepot) (Copenhagen-Denmark) (gives huge industry)
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Entrepot
a place, usually a port city, where goods are imported, stored, and transshipped (break-of-bulk point)
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Shatter belt
in Eastern Europe to describe a zone of chronic political and splintering (ethnically diverse region where nationalism has a great deal of power)
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Balkanization
to break up (as in a region) into smaller and hostile units (Yugoslavia)
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Exclave
bounded piece of territory that is kpart of a particular state but lies separated from it by the territory of another state
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Irredentism
policy of cultural extension and potential political expansion by a state aimed at a community of its national living in a neighboring state
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Countries in Western Europe
Germany France Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg Switzerland Austria
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Eastern Europe Countries
Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hertzogovina, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine
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British Isles
United Kingdom Ireland
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Northern Europe
Sweden Norway Denmark Finland Estonia Iceland
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Mediterranean Europe
Italy Spain Portugal Greece Cyprus Malta
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Countries that face the Baltic Sea
Poland Lithuania Latvia Belarus
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The Landlocked Center
Czech Republic Slovakia Hungary
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Countries facing the Adriatic Sea
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hertzogovina, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania
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Yugoslavia
Slovenia Croatia Bosnia-Hertzogovina Macedonia Serbia Montenegro Kosovo
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Countries facing the Black Sea
Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine
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4 physical landscapes
Western Uplands North European Lowlands Central Uplands/Highlands Alpine Region
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lingua franca
english
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Iberian Peninsula
Spain & Portugal
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United Kingdom
- England, Scotland, Wales, & Northern Ireland - birth place Industrialized Revolution - important energy source: coal - large deposits of oil and natural gas
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Republic of Ireland
- independent in 1921 - one of the fastest growing economies in Europe & EU - important: agriculture, high-tech industries, tourism
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Germany
- divided after WWII, unified in 1990 - highly developed/industrialized - among world’s leading economic power - most powerful European economy - Europe’s most populous country
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France
- natural wealth - 2/3rds of land nearly level
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Luxembourg
- high level of industrialization & GNP - Agriculture only 4% of population - Economy based on financial activities
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The Kingdom of the Netherlands
- most densely populated country in Europe - land reclamation
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Swizerland
- one of the oldest countries in Europe - one of the most stable democracies in the world - known for neutrality - Four national languages (German, Romanshe, Italian, French)
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Austria
- majority speaks German - 85%= Roman Catholic - terrain=hilly/mountainous - tourism=important
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Sweden
- warm currents=nicer climate - high percentage of population 65 & older
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Norway
- 1/3 of length= north of Arctic Circle - chief natural resources: fish, timber, hydroelectric power, oil & natural gas - 4% of land suitable for agriculture - fjords
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Denmark
- Copenhagen (entrepot/break-of-bulk point) - most extensive use of land is for agriculsture, yet highly industrialized
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Finland
- heavy glaciated, lake-strewn landscape - 1917 independence from uSSR
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Estonia
-Former Soviet Soialist Republic until from until 199-l arge oil shale deposites (electric power -EU 2004
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Iceland
- mild lowland climate - damp.cool summers - highest literacy rate in world - US defends it
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Italy
- most populated Mediterranean country - most economically advanced - Po river basin - North: most industrialized/progressive - South: largely undeveloped/poorer (Mezzogiamo region) - Ancona line: sharp north/south contrast - Milan: largest city/manufacturing center & country’s financial & service/industry center - Rome: - 3,000 yrs ago - Italy’s capital: 1870 - 2.6 million ppl
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Spain
- 47 million - democratic - catalonia (leading industrial area) - madrid (primate city) - conflict - British control of Gibralter - March 2004 (Terrorism)
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Portugal
- 10.6 million - coastal orientation - primate city: Lisbon
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Greece
- cradle of western civilization - 11 million - primate city:Athens - fragmented
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Cyprus
- Greek majority, Turk minority - UN peace keeping in center
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Malta
- archipelago - tourism
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Poland
- nation-state - agragarian-wheat - primate city: warsaw
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Lithuania
- soviet socialist republic 1940-1991 - kalingrad (Russian exclave)

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