Geographic Tour

Question 1

Define physical geography

Answer 1

focuses on natural features of earth, water, weather, climate, land formation

Question 2

Define population geography

Answer 2

focuses relationship between geography and population rates, death and birth

Question 3

Define political geography

Answer 3

focuses on geography’s effects on politics, national boundaries, and between states

Question 4

Define economic geography

Answer 4

focusues on relationship between geography and economic activity

Question 5

Characterize the midwest or plains states

Answer 5

North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio; known for agriculture of wheat, oats, and corn; near waterways and coal and iron deposits

Question 6

Characterize the midatlantic states

Answer 6

D.C., New York, West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania; industrialized area with financial center in NY

Question 7

Characterize the south

Answer 7

Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia; mild weather, rich soil, oil, agriculture in cotton, peanuts, rice, corn, tobacco, cattle

Question 8

Characterize the mountain states

Answer 8

Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico; sparsely populated

Question 9

Characterize the pacific states

Answer 9

Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, Alaska, California, which leads in agriculture

Question 10

Characterize New England

Answer 10

Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut; small region, fishing, shipping, manufacturing, dairy farming

Question 11

What’s important about North America?

Answer 11

Ottawa, Canada, resources nickle, gold, silver, zinc; United States, D.C., coal, copper, gold, silver, nickel; Mexico, Mexico City, oil, gold, silver, natual gas, corn, coffee, sugar cane

Question 12

What’s important about Central America?

Answer 12

Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua; very poor people, bananas, coffee, corn, long coastline

Question 13

What’s important about South America?

Answer 13

half of the population and area lies in Brazil; Andes stretch length of the west coast; Amazon Basin covers north central part of continent; peripheral populations now moving inward; difficult terrain kept countries distanced from one another; dividied into 4 regions, North, West, Southern Cone, Brazil; cultural and economic pluralism strong, subsistance and commercial farming side by side

Question 14

What are the differences between these geographic areas of South America?

Answer 14

North followed a plantation development model importing slaves and contract laborers that were absored into the culture; West influenced by Andes and Amerindian culture; South influenced by Europe; Brazil influeneced by Portugal and strong African culture

Question 15

What’s important about Europe?

Answer 15

39 states, Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, Southern Europe more populous than Northern; Eastern Europe largest region, known as shatter belt because of Balkanization; Northern Europe low resources yet one of richest areas; Western Europe hub of economic power; British Iles rely on Europe for resources

Question 16

What’s important about Northern Africa?

Answer 16

Northern Africa separated from Subsaharan Africa by Sahara Desert; surrounded by water except at Sinai Peninsula in Egypt; Atlantic to west, Mediterranean to north, Red Sea to east; Atlas Mountains lie in the north; fertile soil lends itself to agriculture

Question 17

What’s important about Subsaharan Africa?

Answer 17

Sahara Desert to the north; Atlantic to the west, Indian Ocean to the east; includes Horn of Africa and Sudan which are influenced by Middle East; includes Sahel a trasitional zone between Sahara and Savanna; Ruwenzri mountain range which includes Mt. Kilimanjaro; includes Great Rift Valley, Nile, Niger, Zaire, and Zambezi rivers

Question 18

What has led to many of the problems in Subsaharan Africa?

Answer 18

approximately 50 states and hundreds of ethnic groups makes this a diverse area; when given independence, geographic borders not considered, which has led to the fraud, mismanagement, and poor health conditions

Question 19

How are Northern Africa regions divided?

Answer 19

Maghreb, northwest; Nile Valley, northeast; Sahara, south

Question 20

What’s important about Asia?

Answer 20

Russia is most of Eurasian and twice as large as Canada; most people live West of the Ural Mountains; has most mineral resources and most coal and oil, but it’s in hard to reach areas

Question 21

What’s important about South Asia?

Answer 21

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka; Himalayas to the north; very dense population; religions share many cultural practices; conflicts strengthened after British Colonialism fell

Question 22

What’s important about East Asia?

Answer 22

China, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia; Taiwan and North Korea not classified or recognized as states

Question 23

What’s important about Antartica?

Answer 23

surrounded by the Southern Ocean; one of the largest deserts

Question 24

What’s important about Australia?

Answer 24

surrounded by Indian and Pacific Oceans

Question 25

List the 7 continents

Answer 25

North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antartica

Question 26

What are the 5 oceans of the world?

Answer 26

Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic