1. 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 Geography Stuff More Geo Stuff Guess what? Amazing Facts About Geography And many more… GEO FACTS

2. Differentiate between a State and a Nation-State Give examples..

3. . Characteristics of a state: sovereignty, recognized borders, population Nation-state: a state (see above) that has a homogenous ethnic make-up. Ex. Japan, Denmark

4. Name each shape of state..

6. Why would a country want a proruption??

7. . To reach something…. A natural resource (river, ocean, etc)

8. What are the 3 types of borders separating states? Give an example

9. 1.Cultural (religion, ethnicity, language) 2.Physical (mountains, river, desert) 3.Geometric (line of latitude, straight line)

10. Describe what a microstate is, using an example

11. “a microstate is a very very very small state/country.” Examples: Monaco, Vatican City, Singapore, etc.

12. What is this supranational organization? Is it economic or military? Or not

13. Mercosur: economic

14. What is this supranational organization? Is it economic or military?

15. NAFTA economic

16. What is this supranational organization? Is it economic or military? currency=Euro

17. European Union economic

18. What are these 2 supranational organizations? economic or military?

19. MILITARY blue=NATO red=Warsaw Pact (no longer together since end of cold war)

20. Name the 3 World Cities

21. London, Tokyo, New York

22. Differentiate, clearly, between bulk-gaining and bulk-reducing industries

23. bulk- gaining: final product weighs MORE than input (cars, manufactured goods, bottling) bulk-reducing: final product weighs LESS than input (iron ore, copper)

24. Name the 2 most populated countries on earth

25. China and India

26. Is this a PRIMARY, SECONDARY, TERTIARY, or QUATERNARY industry?.

27. SECONDARY

28. Is this a PRIMARY, SECONDARY, TERTIARY, or QUATERNARY industry?

29. PRIMARY

30. Give an example of the SAME JOB using animate and inanimate power

31. Animate= people or animal power Inanimate= power by machines

32. What in the world is a MILKSHED???

33. Area around a city where milk is produced and provided for the community (without spoilage)

34. Give facts about the 1 st, 2 nd, and 3 rd agricultural revolutions

35. 1 st = neolithic (invention of ag) 2 nd = during the IR (subsistence  commercial farming 3 rd = 20 th century (science/genetics  Green Revolution

36. Give an example of OUTSOURCING

37. Clothing as part of the New International Division of Labor: Cotton grown in USA, T-shirts made in Bangladesh, T-shirts sold all over Company HQ in Los Angeles

38. Name the 2 types of agriculture done in a DRY/ARID climate in an MDC and an LDC??

39. MDC= cattle ranching LDC= pastoral nomadism

40. Differentiate with examples….. Renewable and Nonrenewable energy---

41. Renewable: energy that will be replaced in a lifetime (water, wind, solar,biomass) Nonrenewable: energy that will NOT be replaced in a lifetime, or a millenium (fossil fuels)

42. Which population pyramid would be an LDC and why?

43. LDC because with so many young people, doubling time will be low. …

44. what is TFR? Is it HIGH or LOW in LDC’s??

45. Total Fertility Rate – average # of children a woman will have in her life HIGH IN LDC’s LOW in MDC’s

46. MDC or LDC?? HIGH GDI what’s GDI?

47. Gender Development Index-compares development levels of countries between MALES and FEMALEs High numbers indicate = for women MDC’s Low numbers indicate less= for women LDC’s

48. Define! Range and Threshold clearly and precisely

49. Range= maximum distance customers will travel for your business. Threshold= minimum number of customers needed to support your business

50. What is URBAN SPRAWL?? and How does it differ in the USA and in Europe?

51. The uncontrolled spread of development Europe, esp UK, is more mindful in planning for maintaining the countryside by incorporating GREENBELTS