Geography

Question 1

Spatial Perspective

Answer 1

A way of identifying, explaining, and predicting the human and physical patterns in space and the interconnectedness of various spaces.

Question 2

Five Themes of Geography (in 1984 by the National Council for Geographic Education and the Association of American Geographers).

Answer 2

Location, Place, Region, Human-Environment Interaction, and Movement.

Question 3

New Standards of Geographic Education (National Geography Standards)

Answer 3

1. The World in Spatial Terms, 2. Places and Regions, 3. Physical Systems, 4. Human Systems, 5. Environment and Society, and 6. The Uses of Geography.

Question 4

1. The World in Spatial Terms

Answer 4

1. How do we use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report info.?
2. How do we use mental maps to organize info. about people, places, and environments?
3. How do we analyze the spatial organization of people, places, and environments on Earth’s surface?

Question 5

2. Places and Regions

Answer 5

4. The physical and human characteristics of places.
5. That people create regions to interpret Earth’s complexity.
6. How culture and experience influence people’s perceptions of places and regions.

Question 6

Mental Maps

Answer 6

Mental maps are used whenever an individuals think about a place and howto get to a place. They are highly personal idiosyncratic and usually contain both subjective projections and objective knowledge.

Question 7

Irredentism

Answer 7

Italian for ‘unredeemed’ is an attempt by existing states to annex territories of another state. The Kurd, Roma, and Basque conflicts are from stateless entities, so therefore they are not examples.
Kashmir* example

Question 8

The biosphere consists of these three interrelated parts:

Answer 8

1. the troposphere, which is the lowest layer of the earth’s atmosphere.
2. the hydrosphere, which includes all of the waters, both on the surface and subsurface.
   3.the lithosphere, which contains all of the soils that support plant life, the minerals that plants and animals use, and the fossil fuels and ores that humans use for energy.
   The geosphere is the earth’s mantle and core, and is only a part of the biosphere if life is also present.

Question 9

Ecosystems

Answer 9

Ecosystems vary in size and shape, and while they can be self-sustaining units of all the organisms and physical features that exist together in a particular area, they are interconnected. When there is a disruption in one part of the ecosystem , it has an affect on the other parts.

Question 10

Human influence on the ecosystem

Answer 10

Human influence on the ecosystem has been tremendous. They have taken natural processes like soil generation, the water cycle, waste removal, energy, and nutrient recycling and altered them.

Question 11

Non-renewable resources

Answer 11

Non-renewable resources are those which are usually found in the ground. They are not living things, they don’t re-grow, and are not renewed quickly, if at all. Non-renewable natural resources take longer than a person’s lifetime to be replaced. Example:fossil fuels, like natural gas, coal, oil, and minerals.

Question 12

What is the ‘digital divide”?

Answer 12

Not all areas of the world have been able to join the Information Age at the same time or in the same place as the U.S. The digital divide has created not only a gap among nations, but also within the U.S.

Question 13

Which of the following are characteristics of human populations?

Answer 13

Death, marriage and divorce, and migration.