RWS Reading Notes 1 Name:_______________________ The Basics of Geography

Chapter 1 (p. 2)
1. What are the five themes of geography?

2. What is the difference between absolute location and relative location?

3. Is the Prime Meridian a line of longitude or latitude?

4. Is the Equator a line of longitude or a line of longitude or latitude?

5. Provide an example of a formal region.

6. Provide an example of a functional region.

7. What is a perceptual region?

8. A measurement of how far across the earth a person, an idea, or a product travels is what geographers call ____.

9. What is time distance?

10. Describe psychological distance.

11. A mapmaker is also known as a ____.

12. A _____ is a way of drawing a 3D earth onto a 2D piece of paper without causing too much distortion.

13. Name at least 3 forms of technology geographers use to collect geographic information and produce maps. 1

14. Name 9 elements that are necessary for reading and understanding a map.

15. Provide an example of Ratio Scale.

16. Provide (draw) an example of Bar Scale.

17. What is the difference between small scale and large scale maps?

18. What two map factors are distorted with a planar projection?

19. What map factor is distorted with a conical projection?

20. What is wrong with a Mercator map?

21. A homolosine projections shows accurate ___________ but inaccurate ________.

22. Why is a Robinson projection a common map used in textbooks?

23. What is the purpose of a physical map?

24. What is the purpose of a political map?

25. What type of map illustrates the movement of people, goods, ideas, or animals?

26. What type of map draws the size of each country in proportion to DATA rather than land size?

27. What type of map helps you see patterns related to a specific idea?

Chapter 4 (p. 70)

1. Define culture.

2. What does an ethnic group share?

3. The spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior is called ___.

4. Name an example of a cultural hearth.

5. What happens when a society changes because it adopts an innovation?

6. What is nationalism?

7. How many languages to geographers estimate are spoken across the world today? 8. Provide an example of a language dialect.

9. What are the 3 categories of religions?

10. What is the oldest monotheistic religion?

11. What is the largest of all religions with 2 billion followers?

12. What are the followers of Islam called?

13. Which ethnic religion is concentrated in India?

14. Who is Siddhartha Gautama and which religion did he found? 15. When did the earths population hit the one billion mark?

16. How can countries lower the infant mortality rate in a population? 3

17. How is a populations rate of natural increase calculated?

18. Name at least two factors that a population pyramid shows about a population. 19. Almost 2/3 of the worlds population lives between which latitudes?

20. Cities with more than 1 million people are called_____.

21. Provide an example of a push factor.

22. How do you calculate population density?

23. What is carrying capacity?

24. What is the difference between a state and a nation?

25. Name 4 categories of government.

26. What challenges does a landlocked country face?

27. Provide an example of a natural boundary.

28. Provide an example of an artificial boundary.

29. What is a metropolitan area?

30. The rise in the number of cities or the increased movement to cities is called___.

31. What are 3 basic land use patterns found in cities?

32. What is the core of a city called? 4

33. What urban area model looks like a bulls eye?

34. What urban model contains scattered urban districts called nuclei?

35. What are the 4 basic types of economic systems? Define each.

36. Provide an example of a primary economic activity.

37. Provide an example of a secondary economic activity.

38. Provide an example of a tertiary economic activity.

39. What is a quaternary economic activity?

40. Trees and seafood are examples of _________ resources because they can be replaced through natural processes.

41. What resources cannot be replaced once they have been removed from the ground?

42. What are inexhaustible energy sources?

43. Power, communications, transportation, water, sanitation, and education systems are all support systems in a nations _______.

44. What is the difference between GNP and GDP?