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Global 2 RRegents Review

Spring 2011

Geography Review

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Geography

• What is geography?– Geography is the study of the earth’s

surface, climate and topography

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Geography• Why is geography important?

– The obvious reasons: we should know where things are

– We should know how geography has impacted human development

– We should know how and why history has been impacted by the earth

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Geography

• Kinds–Physical

–Economic–Human/cultural

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Physical Geography• Topography

–Continents–Mountains–Peninsulas–Valleys–Deserts–Rain forests

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Physical Geography

• Bodies of water

–Oceans

–Rivers

–Seas

–Straits

–Canals

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Physical Geography• Climate

– Climate is the average weather usually taken over a 30-year time period for a

particular region and time period. Climate is not the same as weather, but rather, it is the average pattern of weather for a

particular region. Weather describes the short-term state of the atmosphere.

– From weatherwizkids.com

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Continents• There are 7 continents

–Africa–Asia–North America–South America–Antarctica–Europe –Australia

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Mountains

• Important Mountains

–Himalayas

–Urals

–Alps

–Andes

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Peninsulas• A body of land that is

surrounded on 3 sides by water–Iberian–Italian–Arabian–Korean–Yucatan

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Rivers & Valleys

• Nile

• Ganges

• Indus

• Yellow (Huang He)–China’s “Sorrow” why?

• Tigris & Euphrates

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Deserts• A desert is a landscape or region

that receives very little precipitation. Deserts are defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than 10 inches.

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Deserts

• Gobi

• Sahara

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Rainforests

• The tropical rain forest is a forest of tall trees in a region of year-round warmth. An average of 50-260 inches of annual rain fall.

• Almost all rain forests lie near the equator.

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Major Bodies of Water

• Oceans–Pacific–Indian–Arctic–Atlantic–Southern

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Major Bodies of Water

• Seas

–Barents Sea

–Red Sea

–Black Sea

–Mediterranean Sea

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Major Bodies of Water

• Caribbean Sea

• Caspian Sea– Land-locked

• North Sea

• Adriatic Sea

• Baltic Sea

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Straits

• A strait is a narrow body of water between 2 larger bodies of land

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Straits

• Bosporus

• Dardanelles

• Magellan

• Gibraltar

• Bering

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Canals

• Suez

• Panama

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Economic Geography

• Agriculture

• Industrial production

• Natural resources

• Economic systems

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Economic Geography

• Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the Earth

• Source: wikipedia.com

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Human & Cultural Geography

• The study of where humans are and what they are doing around the globe.

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Human & Cultural Geography

• Demography

– The size and distribution of human population in a given area

– Population density

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Other Geographic Issues

• Longitude: imaginary lines on the map that run north/south– These lines begin at zero degrees with that line being

called the Prime Meridian

Latitude: imaginary lines on the map that run east/west

These lines begin at zero degrees with that line called the equator

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Other Geographic Issues

• Latin America– Generally speaking, Latin America is

composed of Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean Islands

– The term Latin America comes from the fact that the two dominant languages, Spanish and Portuguese, are derived from Latin

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Other Geographic Issues

• Asia Minor– Also known as Anatolia, this is the area

that encompasses most of modern day Turkey and borders the Black Sea to the North, the Caspian Sea to the northeast and the Mediterranean to the south.

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Other Geographic Issues

• Monsoons– Seasonal winds that bring heavy amounts of

rain in the summer– Best example would be Indian monsoons

coming off the Arabian Sea and hitting the west coast of India

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Other Geographic Issues• Ring of Fire

– an area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean

– In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes.

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Other Geographic Issues

• Archipelago– A chain of islands

• Philippines

• Bahamas

• Japan

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