Karteikarten
Geography Test 1
Karten in diesem Stapel (30)
- 1What is the difference between a nation and nation stateA nation state is a group of people who share ethnicity, religion, language and other cultural characteristics and who have an official territory
- 2What was the industrial revolution and when did it happen?Happened in the UK 1750-1850
Period of major industrialization (technical innovation)
It increase urbanization - 3What was the agrarian revolutionPeriod of technological improvement (agricultural innovation)
Better equipment and storage practice
Began in the 1750's - 4What is mercantilism?Acquisition of goods by conquesting other places to achieve favorable power in international trade
- 5What is colonialism?One country's effort to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic and cultural principals on a territory
- 6Name Europe's 4 physiographic regionsAlpine Mountains
Central Uplands
Western Uplands
North European Lowland - 7What are the characteristics of a recognized state (as by the UN)Politically organized territory with a sovereign government
MUST CONTAIN:
a permanent resident population
organized economy
functioning internal circulation system - 8What is meant by "Europe, center of the land hemisphere, center of the world"It has maximum efficiency for contact with the rest of the world and every part of Europe is close to sea
- 9Name the 3 challenge of Modern EuropeFinancial crisis
Refugee crisis
Brexit - 10What is ethnic cleansingExpulsion of an ethnic minority by a dominant majority in order to achieve ethnic homogeneity
- 11What is BeneluxBelgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg union to help each other
First supernationalist - 12What is the EECEuropean Economic Community
aimed to bring economic integration among its member state - 13What is meant by devolutionCentrifugal forces of regions or people within a state that demands political strength at the expense of the state
- 14What are the three principles of spatial interaction?Transferability
Complementary
Intervening Opportunities - 15What is a centrifugal force?Contribute to social and political divergence that may break up a state
- 16What is a centripetal force?Help to politically unify as a cohesive and stable entity
- 17Name the Latitude centerEquator
- 18Name the Longitude centerGreenwich
- 19What is the quality of Central UplandsHeart of Europe
raw material - 20What is the quality of Alpine Mountainsthe highland region
- 21What is the quality of Western UplandsOlder
lower and more stable
hard rock shaped by glaciation - 22What is the quality of North European lowlandMost populated region
- 23What is infrastructure? Key component?Physical structures needed for the operation of a society
Highly interdependent economic realm - 24What are the four Motors and their significance?Rhone-Alps: second largest city: Lyon
Lombardy: Industrial Metropolis of Milan
Catalonia: Manufacturing center of Barcelona
Baden-Wurttenberg: high-tech city of Stuttgart - 25EU transportation system state?World's most efficient
- 26What is physiographyScience of physical geography
systematic description of nature - 27What is topographyStudy of surface, relief, shape, and features
can show elevation - 28What is relative locationthe position of something relative to another landmark
- 29What is absolute locationLocation described as a fixed position that never changes
- 30What is the difference between weather and climateweather is at a specific time and place
the climate is over time
(the state of the atmosphere)
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