Complete List of Terms and Definitions for Geography Midterm 2

Terms Definitions
Frankreich Paris
bank teibou
acid rain
juarez Ciudad Juárez.
conservation protecting natural resources
Hejira Muhammad's escape to Medina
Isogloss a word usage boundaryexample-
phosphate natural minerals containing chemical compounds often used in fertilizers
formal region physical or cultural regions
Squatter settlements Residential developments characterized by extreme poverty that usually exist on land just outside of cities that is neither owned nor rented by its occupants.
o Aquifier: underground layer of water ...
People of African and European ancestry: Mulattos.
Butte A conspicuous isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; it is smaller than mesas, plateaus, and tables. ("butte" means "small hill" in French; Because of their distinct shapes, buttes are frequently key landmarks in both plains and mountainous areas).Mesa has a top wider than its height, while a butte's top is narrower. Ex. Scotts Bluff in Nebraska; Crested Butte in Colorado; Elephant Butte in New Mexico.
Italy What is Rome the capital of?
Dispersed (or scattered) isolated houses (not clustered)
White Papers 1939 undid Balfour Declaration, limiting policy of Jewish immigration
What is the capital of Bhutan? Thimphu
Folk Culture traditions practiced by small, homogeneous rural groups living in relative isolation from other groups
holocaust the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II (usually prec. by the).
geography the study of the earth's surface, climate, continents, countries, peoples, industries, and products.
extinct language language that has no native speakers
What is a systematic means of communicating ideas or feeling by the use of conventionalized signs, gestures, mark, or especially articulate VOCAL SOUNDS? Language
Atmosphere

is the layer of gases surrounding the earth:
Contains oxygen
Protects Earth from radiation, space debris
Is the medium for weather and climate
India What is New Dlhi the capital of?
Magma Molten rock material formed when solid rock in the earth's mantle or crust melts.
biosphere the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth where living organisms exist
What are the lowland countries of Europe are:? -Belgium-Netherlands-Luxenburg
glaciation to cover with ice or glaciers

the last one covered North America and Eurasia
Primary activities economic activities that are concerned directly with natural resources of any kind
Placelessness Loss of distinct local features in favor of standardized landscape
How is nitrogen broken down? in lightening strikes
tundra vast, treeless plains in cold northern climates, has permafrost, and small low plants
compressional faults compression of crustal rock into a smaller horizontal space, shortening of the crust
Nationalism The demand for self-rule and a strong feeling of loyalty to one’s nation. P294
Dispersion/Concentration (Opposites) the amount of spread of a phenomenon over an area
 
 
 
 
RELATIVE LOCATION 		Describes the position of
a place in relation to another
place.
The largest bodies of land on Earth are called___________. Continents.
Aquaculture Fish farming; the raising of fish for food in enclosed enviorments such as tanks, reservoirs, onds, sheltered bays, and river estuaries
Plate tectonics A theory in geology;the lithosphere of the earth is divided into a small number of plates which float on and travel independently over the mantle and much of the earth's seismic activity occurs at the boundaries of these plates.
serfs persons legally bound to live on and farm land owned by the lord
Globalization The binding together of all the lands and peoples of the world into an integrated system driven by capitalistic free markets, in which cultural diffusion is rapid and independent states are weakened and cultural homogenization is encouraged
Export-processing zones (EPZs) small areas within which especially favorable investment and trading conditions are created by governments in order to attract export-oriented industries
localization when a product or trend is introduced to another country
Which is at a lower pressure, inner core or outer core? Outer
trade winds any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
Rift Valley Valley with steep sides formed by a rift in the Earth's crust
In the late 1990's the EU began preparing for the establishment of a single currency which became what? the Euro
preservation acts aiming to KEEP an area or species IN ITS ORIG CONDITION
transgenic crops contains a gene or genes which have been artificially inserted instead of the plant acquiring them through pollination
Walloons a member of a people who speak a French dialect and live in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France
What is a megalopolis? That are super-cities that are clustered together like Boston-Washington.
Natural Increase Rate(NIR) The percentage by which a population grows each year
Most of Iceland's homes are heated by b) geothermal power
Cross-sectional area Total length of the bed and bank sides in contact with water in the channel.
Invisibility of production to consumer? when commodities are encountered by consumers in a market, social relations that went into making product are often rendered invisible to consumers
Pop. distribution of Canada currently
  		- lower 20 % of county
SURVEY SYSTEMS it is a method used in the United States to survey and identify land parcels, particularly for rural land, and wild or undeveloped land
Rubber, Tin, other resources found in SE Asia, Malaysia, and Thailand
1. Symbol: E
2. Climate:
3. Soil forming regime:
4. Vegetation: 		2. Polar
3. Gleization
4. Tundra or none
He was buried in San Juan under a stone that read "Beneath this stone repose the bones of the valiant lion..." after he was killed by natives in Florida Ponce de Leon
What are the three periods of population growth? Negligible growth (prior 8000 BC), slow groth (8000 BC - 1750), very brief period of rapid growth
EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) a sea zone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources stretching 200 nautical miles from the coast. The country that controls the EEZ has rights to the fishing, whaling; as well as the raw material resources.
Marine West Coast 40-60* ----- Cfb or Cfctemp - cool to warm summers ; mild winters - no month less than 32*precip - wet all yearcontrols- upper mid latitudes- summer temp-marine influence ; winter temps- wet all year- westerlies dominate all year- frontal storms (mP)
The outer core is thought to be made of ______, and the Inner Core ______. This material came from a giant _________ which arrived _________years ago. liquid iron, solid iron, asteroid, 4 billion